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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Could Gentleman Know Like Listed Part Poetic Starve Training Trust You

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Book Contents Deep He Least Lived Man Part Seen Understands Until

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

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Topics: Any Bank Check Depends Drawn General Like Meet Statement Value

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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Art Artist Building Buys Creates Equal He Himself Makes Money Needs Patron Then Who World

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Because Between Bore Distinguish Find Ideas Live People Shelf Stuffed

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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Anti-Semitism Made Mistake Prejudice Stupid Suburban Worst

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Wars are made to make debt.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Debt Made Make Wars

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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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Topics: Agree Always Business Men Them Two Unnecessary

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Art Born Great Great Art Metropolis

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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Decay Literature Nation

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 30th, 1885

Died: November 1st, 1972

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