Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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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.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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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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