What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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