Ezra Pound Quotes
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Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.
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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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What counts is the cultural level.
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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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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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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.