Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lovest well remains.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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