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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
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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
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
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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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In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.
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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
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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.
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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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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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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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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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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