I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lovest well remains.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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.
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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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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