Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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