The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDA people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Every great change is simple.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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