Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Either move or be moved.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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