A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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