I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Either move or be moved.
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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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