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 POUNDEither move or be moved.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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The artist is always beginning.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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.
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