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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #artist #find #him #his

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#any #book #books #certain #contents

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#begins #dance #departs #far #gets

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

— Ezra Pound

#genius #man #ordinary #ordinary man #see

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gentleman #i #know #like #listed

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

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #building #buys #creates #equal

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#been #market #nothing #only #pay

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#entire #entire life #harder #humor #i

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#before #crowd #favorite #i #jokes