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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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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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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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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And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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