Ezra Pound Quotes

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Hold
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Meaning
The what is so much more important than how.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Oneself Regular Rhyme
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Soap Way
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad
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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Category Paragraph
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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