Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDMusic begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
EZRA POUNDI found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUNDIf I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDSeems 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.
EZRA POUNDWith one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDThe worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDTo break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUNDThe real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUNDIf a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUNDSpeak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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