Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDIn our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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