If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUNDI would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Either move or be moved.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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