What thou lovest well remains.
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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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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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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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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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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