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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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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.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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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.
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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.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
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No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
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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.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
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It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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