The artist is the antenna 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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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