Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDSmall talk comes from small bones.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Either move or be moved.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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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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