Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
EZRA POUNDI guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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 artist is always beginning.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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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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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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