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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
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I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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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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Properly, we should read for power.
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The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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