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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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• What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

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  Believe, What Matters, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• Properly, we should read for power.

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  Power, Should

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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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• 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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• Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

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  Speak, Oppression, Tyranny

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

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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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• Glance is the enemy of vision.

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  Enemy, Vision, Glances

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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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  Art, Artist, Should

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.253, New Directions Publishing

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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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• 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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• Technique is the test of sincerity.

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  Technique, Tests, Sincerity

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• Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

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  Religion, Atheism, Heroic

  "The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941".

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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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• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

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  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All great art is born of the metropolis.

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  Art, Cities, Born

  1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.

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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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• Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

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  Squares, Giving, Mind

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