With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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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.
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Either move or be moved.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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