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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Genius
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"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."
Work
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
People
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
Thought
"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."
Power
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Learning
"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."
Wrong
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
Art
"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
People
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