I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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