Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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