Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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