What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Seems 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.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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