Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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