All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDThe difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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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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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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