Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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