Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDSmall talk comes from small bones.
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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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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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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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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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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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