Ezra Pound quotes - page 3

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. (Ezra Pound)
All great art is born of the metropolis. View quote
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever. View quote
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you. View quote
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. View quote
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. View quote
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Ezra Pound)
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. View quote
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. View quote
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. View quote
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. View quote
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories. View quote
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Rhythm must have meaning. View quote
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small talk comes from small bones. View quote
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. View quote
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. View quote
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. (Ezra Pound)
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. View quote
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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. View quote
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. View quote
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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. View quote
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