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Ezra Pound quotes: A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
Ezra Pound quotes: I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound quotes: The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound quotes: Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities - Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities -
Ezra Pound quotes: The thought of what America would be likeIf the Classics had a wide circulationTroubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole) The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
Ezra Pound quotes: What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely. What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
Ezra Pound quotes: If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
Ezra Pound quotes: Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound quotes: Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection - / We shall get ourselves rather disliked. Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection - / We shall get ourselves rather disliked.
Ezra Pound quotes: Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound quotes: Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
Ezra Pound quotes: The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound quotes: Learn of the green world what can be thy placeIn scaled invention or true artistry Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry
Ezra Pound quotes: The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound quotes: Poetry must be as well written as prose. Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound quotes: And the days are not full enoughAnd the nights are not full enoughAnd life slips by like a field mouseNot shaking the grass And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Ezra Pound quotes: A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
Ezra Pound quotes: If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Ezra Pound quotes: But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Ezra Pound quotes: Rhythm is form cut into time. Rhythm is form cut into time.
Ezra Pound quotes: Wars are made to make debt. Wars are made to make debt.
Ezra Pound quotes: Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Ezra Pound quotes: The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
Ezra Pound quotes: A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone. A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.
Ezra Pound quotes: Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound quotes: Yr/ humanity counterfeityr/ liberty cankered with simulation Yr/ humanity counterfeit
yr/ liberty cankered with simulation
Ezra Pound quotes: And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth. And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
Ezra Pound quotes: Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
Ezra Pound quotes: It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it. It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
Ezra Pound quotes: The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound quotes: Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Ezra Pound quotes: Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds. Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.
Ezra Pound quotes: I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron ... I should have been able to do better. I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron ... I should have been able to do better.
Ezra Pound quotes: Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
Ezra Pound quotes: From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
Ezra Pound quotes: A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Ezra Pound quotes: Glance is the enemy of vision. Glance is the enemy of vision.
Ezra Pound quotes: Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes. Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
Ezra Pound quotes: Literature is language charged with meaning Literature is language charged with meaning
Ezra Pound quotes: Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. 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 quotes: A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.
Ezra Pound quotes: It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself. It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
Ezra Pound quotes: With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Ezra Pound quotes: A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound quotes: small talk comes from small bones small talk comes from small bones
Ezra Pound quotes: A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound quotes: Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
Ezra Pound quotes: Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say. Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
Ezra Pound quotes: Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound quotes: When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Ezra Pound quotes: I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic I mean my motion. I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic
I mean my motion.
Ezra Pound quotes: Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
Ezra Pound quotes: Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Ezra Pound quotes: Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound quotes: Technique is the test of sincerity. Technique is the test of sincerity.
Ezra Pound quotes: No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound quotes: Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound quotes: I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Ezra Pound quotes: Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press. Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
Ezra Pound quotes: Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Ezra Pound quotes: But I am like the grass, I can not love you. But I am like the grass, I can not love you.
Ezra Pound quotes: The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
Ezra Pound quotes: A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound quotes: If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound quotes: Take thought. I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile. Take thought.
I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile.
Ezra Pound quotes: And in the mean time my songs will travel,And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy themwhen they have got over the strangeness And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness
Ezra Pound quotes: I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Ezra Pound quotes: Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound quotes: Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever. Listen to me, attend me!
And I will breathe into thee a soul,
And thou shalt live for ever.
Ezra Pound quotes: Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound quotes: What thou lovest well remains,the rest is drossWhat thou lov'st well shall not be reft from theeWhat thou lov'st well is thy true heritage What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
Ezra Pound quotes: More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence. More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.
Ezra Pound quotes: I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
Ezra Pound quotes: The only history that matters is the history we know. The only history that matters is the history we know.
Ezra Pound quotes: There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
Ezra Pound quotes: A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound quotes: Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Ezra Pound Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Ezra Pound quotes: Liberty is not a right but a duty. Liberty is not a right but a duty.
Ezra Pound quotes: Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
Ezra Pound quotes: Presentation, not reference ... Presentation, not reference ...
Ezra Pound quotes: The what is so much more important than how. The what is so much more important than how.
Ezra Pound quotes: What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Ezra Pound quotes: I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten. I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
Ezra Pound quotes: The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound quotes: Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea. Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
Ezra Pound quotes: Any damn fool can be spontaneous. Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
Ezra Pound quotes: I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound quotes: America is a lunatic asylum. America is a lunatic asylum.
Ezra Pound quotes: Sumer is icumen in,Lhude sing cucc.Groweth sed, and bloweth med,And springth the wude nu,Sing cuccu! Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cucc.
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu,
Sing cuccu!
Ezra Pound quotes: I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you. I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
Ezra Pound quotes: The natural object is always the adequate symbol. The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Ezra Pound quotes: In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound quotes: When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Ezra Pound quotes: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.
Ezra Pound quotes: The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
Ezra Pound quotes: Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
Ezra Pound quotes: Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
Ezra Pound quotes: 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
Ezra Pound quotes: If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Ezra Pound quotes: If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana ... and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation. If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana ... and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation.

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