It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image. . . … - Ezra Pound

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I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Ezra Pound

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image. . . that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.

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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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