What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDIn verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
EZRA POUNDThe flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUNDA people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUNDThe concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUNDProperly, 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 POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDGenius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDThe worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUNDA man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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