I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDI desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Every great change is simple.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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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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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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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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