Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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