Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDConsider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
EZRA POUNDThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDThe 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.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUNDCome, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
EZRA POUNDAnyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUNDScience is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
EZRA POUNDThe 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.
EZRA POUNDWith one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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