A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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