The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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