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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.
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Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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small talk comes from small bones
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Properly, we should read for power.
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What counts is the cultural level
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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