The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Every great change is simple.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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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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