Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDNo 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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