Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Good 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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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