What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDI would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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 technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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