Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Every great change is simple.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The artist is always beginning.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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