This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is the antenna of the race.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The artist is always beginning.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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