If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDWhen two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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If 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.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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