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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
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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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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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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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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth to disentangle promise from achievement to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Either move or be moved.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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See, they return ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.
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