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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Aphorisms by Ezra Pound (Ezra Weston Loomis Pound)
You can find this author also in Poems.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.
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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.
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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's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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