The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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