Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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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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