Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The artist is always beginning.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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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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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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