Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDThe natural object is always the adequate symbol.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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