Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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