Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDPoets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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