USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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