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.
EZRA POUNDTo 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.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDUse no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
EZRA POUNDThe art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUNDCome, 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.
EZRA POUNDThe concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDIn our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
EZRA POUNDGenius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUNDThe difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUNDScience 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.
EZRA POUNDGood art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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