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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)

Music , Dance

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

Ezra Pound

A Retrospect (1918)

Books , Justice

“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

Lie , Beauty , Error , Madness

“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.”

Ezra Pound

Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 60

Art

“To be men not destroyers”

Ezra Pound

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

Men

“Make it new!”

Ezra Pound

Book title (1935)

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

Ezra Pound

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