Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDThe real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The artist is always beginning.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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 only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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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.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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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