The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUNDCome, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Either move or be moved.
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