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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. - Ezra Pound
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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. - Ezra Pound
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. - Ezra Pound
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. - Ezra Pound
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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. - Ezra Pound
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. - Ezra Pound
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. - Ezra Pound
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. - Ezra Pound
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. - Ezra Pound
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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. - Ezra Pound
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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. - Ezra Pound
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Literature is news that stays news. - Ezra Pound
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. - Ezra Pound
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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. - Ezra Pound
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Either move or be moved. - Ezra Pound
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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. - Ezra Pound
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. - Ezra Pound
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. - Ezra Pound
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. - Ezra Pound
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All great art is born of the metropolis. - Ezra Pound
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. - Ezra Pound
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