Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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 artist is always beginning.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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