All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDArtists are the antennae of the race.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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 artist is always beginning.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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