Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is the antenna of the race.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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