Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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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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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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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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