Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDArtists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDSeems 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.
EZRA POUNDA man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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 POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDNo man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDAnd the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
EZRA POUNDWars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
EZRA POUNDA little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUNDAny general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUNDIf I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDThe art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUNDLiberty is not a right but a duty.
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