The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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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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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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