Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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