I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
EZRA POUNDThe 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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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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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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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 technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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