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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
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 patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
