This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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