"Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase,……" — Ezra Pound
"Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has 174 quotes on this site.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in…
— John le Carre
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance,…
— Tori Amos
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
— June Jordan
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
— Edward Abbey
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must…
— Louis Pasteur
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire…
— Martin Seligman
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
— Charles Lyell
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