I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDThe natural object is always the adequate symbol.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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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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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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