A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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