Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Anyone 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.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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