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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of it's contents (Ezra Pound Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep herding (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people (Ezra Pound Quotes)
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort (Ezra Pound Quotes)
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts (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 (Ezra Pound Quotes)
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown (Ezra Pound Quotes)
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point (Ezra Pound Quotes)
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries (Ezra Pound Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents (Ezra Pound Quotes)
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf (Ezra Pound Quotes)
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people (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 (Ezra Pound Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention (Ezra Pound Quotes)
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on him (Ezra Pound Quotes)
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand (Ezra Pound Quotes)
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty (Ezra Pound Quotes)
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 from books, convention and cliché, not from real life (Ezra Pound Quotes)
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories (Ezra Pound Quotes)