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 artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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