Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDThe real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Seems 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.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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