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.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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