Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDPoets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUNDScience 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.
EZRA POUNDThe difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDI found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUNDThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDThe modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
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