Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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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 man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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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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