Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Every great change is simple.
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