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.
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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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