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The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry These the keen-scented These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
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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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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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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.
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Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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