I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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 man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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