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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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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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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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