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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
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Either move or be moved.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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