Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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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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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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The artist is always beginning.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Genius 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.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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