The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
EZRA POUNDI did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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