Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDWhy fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDIf a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDThere is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
EZRA POUNDI desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUNDDiscoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUNDArtists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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