Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
EZRA POUNDWhat 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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