Literature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is the antenna of the race.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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The 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.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The 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.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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