Ezra Pound quotes - page 4

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. (Ezra Pound)
Both in Greece and in Provence the poetry attained its highest rhythmic and metrical brilliance at times when the arts of verse and music were most closely knit together, when each thing done by the poet had some definite musical urge or necessity bound up within it. View quote
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To have gathered from the air a live tradition or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame This is not vanity. Here error is all in the not done, all in the diffidence that faltered... View quote
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Who brought this to pass? Who has brought the flaming imperial anger? Who has brought the army with drums and with kettle-drums? Barbarous kings. A gracious spring, turned to blood-ravenous autumn, A turmoil of wars-men, spread over the middle kingdom, Three hundred and sixty thousand, And sorrow, sorrow like rain. View quote
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Without character you will be unable to play on that instrument. View quote
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. View quote
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The blossoms of the apricot blow from the east to the west, And I have tried to keep them from falling. View quote
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Many errors, a little rightness. View quote
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Pride, jealousy and possessiveness 3 pains of hell. View quote
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A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anything from them for their speaking in figures. View quote
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And for one beautiful day there was peace. (Ezra Pound)
I never was. When I left the hospital I was still in America and all America is an insane asylum. View quote
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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts. View quote
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All other sins are open, Usura alone not understood. View quote
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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. View quote
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Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. View quote
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The author's conviction on this day of the New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. View quote
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It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. View quote
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It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public. View quote
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But the beauty is not the madness Tho' my errors and wrecks lie about me. And I am not a demigod, I cannot make it cohere. View quote
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To be men not destroyers. (Ezra Pound)
Make it new! View quote
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. View quote
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. View quote
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. View quote
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