A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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 found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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