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

— Ezra Pound

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#guess #i #lunatic #man #surrounded

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

— Ezra Pound

#bank #check #depends #drawn #general

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#degree #great #great literature #language #literature

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

— Ezra Pound

#between #bore #distinguish #find #ideas

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#insist #knowing #limited #men #mere

All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#grows #humanity #manure #rich #soil

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#divided #jerusalem #never #united #will