I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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