The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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