No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Either move or be moved.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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