Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The artist is always beginning.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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