A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Every great change is simple.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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