It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUNDSeems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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