Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
EZRA POUNDI found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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