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.
EZRA POUNDThe natural object is always the adequate symbol.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Every great change is simple.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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