No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDScience is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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