The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUNDNo good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Every great change is simple.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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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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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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