Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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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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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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Either move or be moved.
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