Ezra Pound quotes - page 2

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage. (Ezra Pound)
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. View quote
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence. View quote
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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. View quote
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. View quote
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I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak. that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. View quote
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Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one 'Sordello.' View quote
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Here is the core of evil, the burning hell without let-up, The canker corrupting all things, Fafnir the worm, Syphilis of the State, of all kingdoms Wart of the common-weal, Wenn-maker, corrupter of all things Darkness the defiler Twin evil of envy, Snake of the seven heads, Hydra, entering all things Passing the doors of temples defiling the grove of Paphos, neschek, the crawling evil, slime, the corrupter of all things, Poisoner of the fount, of all fountains, neschek, The serpent, evil against Nature's increase, Against beauty. View quote
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AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT THEY LIVE IN. View quote
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With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting [...] with usura hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall [...] no picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly. View quote
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. (Ezra Pound)
Wars are made to make debt. View quote
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. View quote
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. View quote
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. View quote
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. View quote
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. View quote
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Either move or be moved. View quote
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. View quote
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight. View quote
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. (Ezra Pound)
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. View quote
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Glance is the enemy of vision. View quote
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. View quote
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man. View quote
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