To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUNDTo break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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