Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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