Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDUse no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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