Quote by Ezra Pound
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value d

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

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

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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War
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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Trust
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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

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Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Poetry

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Science

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. – Charles Edward Montague

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Patriotism

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. – Ovid

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good