Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDUse no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Either move or be moved.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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