The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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