Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUNDSpeak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Genius 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.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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