Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDI desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUNDThe apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUNDGenius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUNDReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDTo break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDHumanity 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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