Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDIt 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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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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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Every great change is simple.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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