When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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