Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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