Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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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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