The artist is always beginning.
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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Every great change is simple.
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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 concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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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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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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