Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Every great change is simple.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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