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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.

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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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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small talk comes from small bones
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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 is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
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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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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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