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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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The artist is always beginning.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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