The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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 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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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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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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