The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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