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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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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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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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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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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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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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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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The artist is always beginning.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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