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Quotes By Ezra Pound

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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Humanity Rich Tree

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

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General Instinct Sound

Wars are made to make debt.

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Debt Wars

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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LifeMenUnderstand

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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ArtHeart Study

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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TruthPoint System

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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WorkHead Writer

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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ArtGoodTrue

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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WorkArtist Violence

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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MusicChurch View

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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Arts Suppose Wrong

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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Ability Social Use

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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Parts Suicide Taking

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

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Allow Since Suicide

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

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Bore Ideas Shelf
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