Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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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.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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