Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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