I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUNDEither move or be moved.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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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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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Either move or be moved.
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