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Ezra Pound Quotes

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you Picture Quote #1

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave Picture Quote #1

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question Picture Quote #1

The artist is the antenna of the race Picture Quote #1

The natural object is always the adequate symbol Picture Quote #1

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language Picture Quote #1

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Any damn fool can be spontaneous Picture Quote #1

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something Picture Quote #1

Artists are the antennae of the race Picture Quote #1

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring Picture Quote #1

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me Picture Quote #1

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour Picture Quote #1

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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin Picture Quote #1

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY Picture Quote #1

Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise Picture Quote #1

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval Picture Quote #1

The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity Picture Quote #1

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy Picture Quote #1

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Poetry is a very complex art... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass Picture Quote #1

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from ‘The Garrett’) Picture Quote #1

The critic who doesn’t make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men’s results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That’s what the word means Picture Quote #1

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year Picture Quote #1

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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture Picture Quote #1

Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace Picture Quote #1

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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you (Ezra Pound Quotes) To break the pentameter, that was the first heave (Ezra Pound Quotes) Utter originality is, of course, out of the question (Ezra Pound Quotes) The artist is the antenna of the race (Ezra Pound Quotes) The natural object is always the adequate symbol (Ezra Pound Quotes) The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language (Ezra Pound Quotes) Any damn fool can be spontaneous (Ezra Pound Quotes) Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something (Ezra Pound Quotes) Artists are the antennae of the race (Ezra Pound Quotes) Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring (Ezra Pound Quotes) I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me (Ezra Pound Quotes) A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour (Ezra Pound Quotes) Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin (Ezra Pound Quotes) But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY (Ezra Pound Quotes) Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise (Ezra Pound Quotes) If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval (Ezra Pound Quotes) The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity (Ezra Pound Quotes) The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy (Ezra Pound Quotes) Poetry is a very complex art... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols (Ezra Pound Quotes) 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 (Ezra Pound Quotes) And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass (Ezra Pound Quotes) Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from ‘The Garrett’) (Ezra Pound Quotes) The critic who doesn’t make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men’s results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That’s what the word means (Ezra Pound Quotes) You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year (Ezra Pound Quotes) From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail (Ezra Pound Quotes) 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 (Ezra Pound Quotes) Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture (Ezra Pound Quotes) Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. (Ezra Pound Quotes) 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. (Ezra Pound Quotes) The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace (Ezra Pound Quotes)

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