Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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