"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
-Ezra Pound
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
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"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
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"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
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"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 poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
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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."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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