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Ezra Pound Quotes
Best Quotes by Ezra Pound (Top 10)
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Literature is news that stays news.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
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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.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Either move or be moved.
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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