A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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.
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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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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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