Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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