Liberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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