Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDConsider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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