The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDUtter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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 artist is always beginning.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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