Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Either move or be moved.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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