What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDWars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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