Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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