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.
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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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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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