I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Every great change is simple.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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