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As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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 thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Properly, we should read for power.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet black bough.
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I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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