A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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 art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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