"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
-Ezra Pound
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"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 together three times a week.“
-Ezra Pound
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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
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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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