USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDTo break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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