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.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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