Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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