The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
EZRA POUNDNo man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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