Technique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Either move or be moved.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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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 difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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