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 POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Either move or be moved.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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