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.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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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 would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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