The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Either move or be moved.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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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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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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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