Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDWhy fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDThe 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.
EZRA POUNDAnyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
EZRA POUNDDiscoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUNDGenius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUNDThe 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.
EZRA POUNDThe concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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