Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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