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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Ezra Pound
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.
Ezra Pound
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Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Either move or be moved.
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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.
Ezra Pound