Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The artist is always beginning.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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