Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The 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.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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