The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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