Ezra Pound quotes - page 6

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. (Ezra Pound)
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn. View quote
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With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. View quote
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. View quote
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If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him. View quote
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. View quote
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And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges. View quote
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The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them A wet leaf that clings to the threshold. View quote
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Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as 'addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness of speech nothingnothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say. View quote
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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. View quote
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Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later ... some in fear, learning love of slaughter Died some, pro patria, non 'dulce' non 'et decor' . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. (Ezra Pound)
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clichT, not from real life. View quote
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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. View quote
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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voila une chose You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow Ah, voila une chose. View quote
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Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom. View quote
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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 Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage. View quote
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. View quote
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Haie Haie These were the swift to harry These the keen-scented These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men. View quote
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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. View quote
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If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him; And if a man have not order within him His family will not act with due order; And if the prince have not order within him He can not put order in his dominions. View quote
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