Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDFrom the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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