American - Poet | October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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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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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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