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.
EZRA POUNDTo 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.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDSeems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUNDThe serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
EZRA POUNDUtter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDThe flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUNDOne discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
EZRA POUNDThe temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDSmall talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUNDThe only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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