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.
EZRA POUNDNothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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