I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUND
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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