If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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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