If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The artist is always beginning.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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