Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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