Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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