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From Quotes by Ezra Pound
- If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the…
- 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…
- The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry…
- Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some…
- 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…
- Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
- The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
- From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
- No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks…
- Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.…
- Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
- And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there...…
- Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
- small talk comes from small bones
- Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends,…
- No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be…
- Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good…
- 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…
- 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…
- If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the…
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