I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDTo say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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