The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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