Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.
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And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.
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Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
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With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
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Where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.