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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
Tags: artist, violence, live, work
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
Tags: those, just, religion, art
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
— Ezra Pound
Tags: real, rest, men, education
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