The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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