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Top 180 Ezra Pound Quotes (2024 Update)

Ezra Pound Quote: “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’”
Ezra Pound Quote: “America is a lunatic asylum.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d’Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Either move or be moved.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The temple is holy because it is not for sale.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Literature is news that stays news.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Wars are made to make debt.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Every great change is simple.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The artist is the antenna of the race.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Make-strong old dreams lest this our world lose heart.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “Presentation, not reference...”
Ezra Pound Quote: “What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Glance is the enemy of vision.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot ‘handle the class.’ Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “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 Quote: “The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
Ezra Pound Quote: “The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.”
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