The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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 artist is always beginning.
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One 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.
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