The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUNDArtists are the antennae of the race.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The artist is always beginning.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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