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.
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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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 little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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 always beginning.
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I 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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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