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EZRA POUNDNo man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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