Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUNDThe art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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