I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDThe worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The 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.
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