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.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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