The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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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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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The artist is always beginning.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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