Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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