I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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 what is so much more important than how.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Either move or be moved.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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