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.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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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 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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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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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 concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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