Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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