Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Every great change is simple.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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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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