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.
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 man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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