All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The artist is always beginning.
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