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Quote by Ezra Pound
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth,

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. – Aleister Crowley

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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. – Hubert Humphrey

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For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon

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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. – Eric Hoffer

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