The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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