Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDGenius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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