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.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is the antenna of the race.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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 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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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