There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUNDTo break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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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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