All Ezra Pound Quotes
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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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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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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