Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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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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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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