Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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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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America is a lunatic asylum.
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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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.