Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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Either move or be moved.
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Every great change is simple.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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