Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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