Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The artist is always beginning.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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