Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
EZRA POUNDThe temple is holy because it is not for sale.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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