Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDWhy fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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