When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDBureaucrats 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.
EZRA POUNDI guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUNDSeems 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.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDThe 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.
EZRA POUNDI have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
EZRA POUNDOur 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.
EZRA POUNDDiscoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUNDI found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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