Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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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.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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