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.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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