When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUNDWith one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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