The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Ezra Pound
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About Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ezra PoundI could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poet…
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea …
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.