And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound

Tag: writing

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I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.

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You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Ezra Pound

Tag: portrait-of-a-lady

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what thou lovest well is
thy true heritage
what thou lovest well shall
not be reft from thee

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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.

Ezra Pound

Tag: love-poetry-death

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Красотата е само един дъх между две клишета.

Ezra Pound

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

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When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius

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No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.

Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it.

Ezra Pound

Tag: advice non-conformity

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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

Tag: reading books light

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