Literature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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