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.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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What 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.
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The 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.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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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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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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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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