Quote by Ezra Pound
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value d

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound

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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. – William Blake

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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – Antonin Artaud

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