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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a ‘knowledge’ as permanent as the faculty for receiving it. (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit (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)
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. (Ezra Pound Quotes)
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. (Ezra Pound Quotes)
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 cliché, not from real life. (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art (Ezra Pound Quotes)
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary (Ezra Pound Quotes)
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Properly, we should read for power (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Rhythm must have meaning (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Liberty is not a right but a duty (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world (Ezra Pound Quotes)
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one (Ezra Pound Quotes)
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity (Ezra Pound Quotes)
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Image… that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time (Ezra Pound Quotes)
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it (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)
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 (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand (Ezra Pound Quotes)
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know (Ezra Pound Quotes)