The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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