I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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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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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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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 desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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