Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDMusic begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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