This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDThe apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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