The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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