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• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

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  Literature, Pay, Printing

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• The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ezra Pound (1965). “Ezra Pound perspectives: essays in honor of his eightieth birthday”

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• A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

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  Sound, Loathing, Gang

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• Poetry must be as well written as prose.

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  Poetry, Wells, Prose

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

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• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

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  Latin, Thinking, Greek

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.339, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Writing, Pounds, Language

  Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann (1964). “Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

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  Emotional, Intellectual, Lifetime

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• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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  Art, Poetry, Pigment

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  Work, Thinking, Action

  1920 Letter to James Joyce, 7-8 Jun.

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• Rhythm is form cut into time.

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  Cutting, Form, Rhythm

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.198, New Directions Publishing

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• Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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  Stars, Squares, Satisfaction

  Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!

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  Real, Meditation, Trying

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• Rhythm must have meaning.

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  Rhythm

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

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  Change, Book, Men

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  Artist, Giving, Doe

  Ezra Pound (1950). “Patria Mia”, Chicago, Seymour

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• Properly, we should read for power.

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  Power, Should

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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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  Dance, Literature, Atrophy

  ABC of Reading (1934) "Warning"

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• Glance is the enemy of vision.

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  Enemy, Vision, Glances

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• It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

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  Skins, Would Be, Half

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• Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

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  Dog, Horse, Race

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• Technique is the test of sincerity.

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  Technique, Tests, Sincerity

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• I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

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  Dust, Forever

  Ezra Pound (1996). “Early Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

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  No Friends, Remember, Rich

  Ezra Pound, “The Garrett”

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• Literature is news that stays news.

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  Book, Inspiration, Reading

  The ABC of Reading ch. 2 (1934)

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• And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

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  Moving, Cutting, Knights

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