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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
— Ezra Pound
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
— Ezra Pound
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
— Ezra Pound
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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.
— Ezra Pound
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
— Ezra Pound
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
— Ezra Pound
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