A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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 only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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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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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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