Ezra Pound Quotes

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Word
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Known
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Aware
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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Bound Convention
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Image
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Oneself
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Solid Table
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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