Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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