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.
EZRA POUNDThe flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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