All Ezra Pound Quotes
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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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 world; he creates.
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