Ezra Pound Quotes

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Oneself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Prose
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Language
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Concept Inferior
Either move or be moved.
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Move
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Dust
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Cheap Mediocre
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial

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