Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
EZRA POUNDA 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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