American - Poet | October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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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.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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