The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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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 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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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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