Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Either move or be moved.
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