Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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