The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Either move or be moved.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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