Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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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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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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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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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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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 damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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