The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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