Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDBureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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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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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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