"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a……" — Ezra Pound
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has 174 quotes on this site.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
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More Inferior Quotes
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Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
— Abu Bakr
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks.…
— Steven Biko
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much…
— Edmund Burke
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is…
— Jane Campion
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
— Emile M. Cioran
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the…
— Hank Aaron
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
— Sun Tzu
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