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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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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 difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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 ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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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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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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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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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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