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.
EZRA POUNDA 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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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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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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