The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUNDSpeak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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