The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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