No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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