Technique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDThe apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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