This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDFrom the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
EZRA POUNDWars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDOne 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.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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.
EZRA POUNDArtists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDI would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDGenius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
EZRA POUNDDiscoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDNo 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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