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.
EZRA POUNDAnd 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.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUNDThe curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDGenius 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.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDIt doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDUtter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUNDWhy fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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