Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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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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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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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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