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.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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