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“The author's conviction on this day of the New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”

Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading

Preface
ABC of Reading (1934)

“It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.”

“It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.”

A Retrospect (1918)

“But the beauty is not the madness
Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.”

Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto CXVI
The Cantos

“But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.”

Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 60

“To be men not destroyers”

Notes for CXVII et seq
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII

“Make it new!”

Book title (1935)

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”

Source: Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Ch. 23