Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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USURY 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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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