The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUNDThe worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDThe modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
EZRA POUNDI would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDSmall talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDIf a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDThe apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUNDThe history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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