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Ezra Pound Inspirational Quotes (121)

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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.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.
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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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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.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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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.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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