Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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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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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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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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