The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUNDNo good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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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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