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Ezra Pound föddes den October 30th 1885 och dog den 1 November 1972 - US writer
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 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

 A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

 A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

 A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

 A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

 A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

 All great art is born of the metropolis.

 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.

 Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

 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.

 AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

 But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

 Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that The rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.

 Either move or be moved.

 Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.


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