Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
EZRA POUNDThe temple is holy because it is not for sale.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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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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.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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