Ezra Pound - Work Quotes

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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

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Leisure is not gained by simply being out of work. Leisure is spare time free from anxiety.

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The history of an art is the history of master-work, not of failures, or mediocrity.

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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.

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

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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle 'promise' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Ezra Pound