I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Either move or be moved.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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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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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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