American - Poet | October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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.
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
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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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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.
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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