Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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