Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The artist is always beginning.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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