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.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Either move or be moved.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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