The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUND
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To 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.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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