What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Every great change is simple.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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