What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUNDIf I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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