If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Either move or be moved.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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