The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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