I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUNDGenius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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