A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
EZRA POUNDA civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDI would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUNDDemocracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
EZRA POUNDLiberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUNDTo say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDThe modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
EZRA POUNDThe only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
EZRA POUNDWith one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUNDMusic 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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