Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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