Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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