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.
EZRA POUNDIf 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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