It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
EZRA POUNDI desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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