Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Either move or be moved.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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