This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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