Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Every great change is simple.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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