The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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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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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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Every great change is simple.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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