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EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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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