I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUNDLiberty is not a right but a duty.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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 worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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