What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Seems 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.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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