What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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