What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUNDAny general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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