It 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 POUNDUse no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The 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.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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