The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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