Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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