What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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