The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDConsider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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