Ezra Pound Quotes - Page 1

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Either move or be moved.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Rhythm must have meaning.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Wars are made to make debt.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Presentation, not reference.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

America is a lunatic asylum.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Every great change is simple.

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Rhythm is form cut into time.

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What thou lovest well remains.

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Glance is the enemy of vision.

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The artist is always beginning.

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What counts is the cultural level

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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

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small talk comes from small bones

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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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Technique is the test of sincerity.

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Literature is news that stays news.

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Properly, we should read for power.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

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Artists are the antennae of the race.

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The artist is the antenna of the race.

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Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

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Poetry must be as well written as prose.

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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

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The what is so much more important than how.

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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

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The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

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To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

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Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

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The only history that matters is the history we know.

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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

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A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

• Ezra Pound / Poet

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.