Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDAnd 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Every great change is simple.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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