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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet black bough.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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