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33 Ezra Pound Quotes & Sayings
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33 Ezra Pound Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 30 October 1885. Died: 1 November 1972 |
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Critic
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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
Man
Reading
Alive
Book
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds
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Speak
Oppression
Tyranny
Bonds
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
Man
Understands
Book
Lived
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature
News
Stays
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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
Days
Nights
Life
Like
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Ezra Pound
Slave
Waits
Someone
Come
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Literature is language charged with meaning
Ezra Pound
Literature
Language
Meaning
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
Ezra Pound
Fundamental
Statement
Morality
Writing
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself
Ezra Pound
People
Grows
Writing
Process
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work
Ezra Pound
Pay
Criticism
Men
Written
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Nothing matter but the quality of the affection in the end that has carved the trace in the mind
Ezra Pound
Matter
Quality
Affection
Mind
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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
Art
Immoral
Virtue
Witness
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation
Ezra Pound
Thing
Artist
Work
Leisure
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
Ezra Pound
Artist
Nature
Open
Give
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Words
Things
Kingdoms
Diminish
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension
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Human
Wisdom
Language
Forms
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One
Reading
Man
Keys
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ezra Pound
Art
Work
Beginning
Worth
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
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Man
Risk
Opinions
Good
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Rhythm
Meaning
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
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Education
Limited
Men
Knowing
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
Ezra Pound
Glance
Enemy
Vision
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Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound
Either
Move
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genuis
Capacity
Ordinary
Man
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Music
Departs
Dance
Poetry
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Humanity
Rich
Grows
Arts
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Man
Genius
Right
Expression
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Wars are made to make debt.
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War
Made
Debt
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Good writers
Language
Efficient
Clear
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Men
Business
Agree
Unnecessary
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Trouble
War
Chance
People
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Ezra Pound
Great age
Literature
Translations
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Ezra Pound
Religion
Failures
Attempt
Art
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Ezra Pound Quotes & Sayings