All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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