With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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