I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUNDWith one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Every great change is simple.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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