Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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