This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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