Technique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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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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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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