The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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 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.
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