Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Every great change is simple.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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