The what is so much more important than how.
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 worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Come, 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.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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