A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUNDThe temple is holy because it is not for sale.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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