The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra PoundPoetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
Ezra PoundThe technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Ezra Pound