Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDI have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Every great change is simple.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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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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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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