Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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