Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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