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What thou lovest well remains.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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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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