No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Either move or be moved.
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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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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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The artist is always beginning.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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