The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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