If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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What thou lovest well remains.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Every great change is simple.
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