A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDUse no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The artist is always beginning.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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