The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
EZRA POUND
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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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