Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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