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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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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