To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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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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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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