One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Every great change is simple.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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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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