The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
EZRA POUNDConsider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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 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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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