The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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