What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUNDIt doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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