A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Every great change is simple.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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