USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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