Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDAnd 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Either move or be moved.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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