Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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