Ezra Pound Quotes
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
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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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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Literature is news that stays news.