What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDA civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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