Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Every great change is simple.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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