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.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Every great change is simple.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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