Liberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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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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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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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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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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