Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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