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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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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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Ezra Pound

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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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Ezra Pound

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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Ezra Pound

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The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

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Ezra Pound

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

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Ezra Pound

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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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Ezra Pound

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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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Ezra Pound

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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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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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Ezra Pound

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