Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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