In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
EZRA POUNDTo break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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