I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUND
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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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