I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUNDUse no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What 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.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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