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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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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