“The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000…. I shall survive as a curiosity.”
Ezra Pound
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“May God damn for ever all who cry ‘Peace!'”
Ezra Pound
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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
Ezra Pound
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“One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man’shope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.”
Ezra Pound
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“Good art however “immoral” is wholly a thing of virtue. … Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.”
Ezra Pound
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“The author’s conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.”
Ezra Pound
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours.”
Ezra Pound
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“Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding…. No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.”
Ezra Pound
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“All great art is born of the metropolis.”
Ezra Pound
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
Ezra Pound
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“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
Ezra Pound
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“Wars are made to make debt.”
Ezra Pound
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“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.”
Ezra Pound
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.”
Ezra Pound
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“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
Ezra Pound
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
Ezra Pound
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“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
Ezra Pound
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“Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.”
Ezra Pound
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“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”
Ezra Pound
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“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
Ezra Pound
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
