The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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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 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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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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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