Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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