Ezra Pound Quotes
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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What counts is the cultural level.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
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It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
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Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
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We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.