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.
EZRA POUNDThis is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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 real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Either move or be moved.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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