Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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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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