Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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