Ezra Pound Professions : Poet Born : October 30, 1885 Died : November 1, 1972 Browse All Authors Top 219 quotes by Ezra Pound The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth. Ezra Pound two lying people Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Ezra Pound genius ordinary men The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound real war peace America is a lunatic asylum. Ezra Pound lunatic-asylums asylums america 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 risk opinion men Every great change is simple. Ezra Pound great-change simple A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Ezra Pound freedom waiting life I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. Ezra Pound damn literature pounds Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. Ezra Pound debt slavery war What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. Ezra Pound helping-others inspirational life Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound learning real education 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 knives cancer cutting Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Ezra Pound essentials language poetry-is The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot. Ezra Pound law order thinking Wars are made to make debt. Ezra Pound debt literature war Either move or be moved. Ezra Pound moved action moving The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left. Ezra Pound intelligent fighting men 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. Ezra Pound void despair too-late Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. Ezra Pound psychics empowerment mediocre Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. Ezra Pound arcs saint views Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
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