In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From Ezra Pound Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' Ezra Pound running europe country The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. Ezra Pound language-learning language humans Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Ezra Pound simple-life simplicity men Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel. Ezra Pound nickels flags fighting In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular. Ezra Pound elements likes poetry If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Ezra Pound rehabilitation decay literature Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses. Ezra Pound horse race dog 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 giving men civilization I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. Ezra Pound captured silence The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. Ezra Pound vortex energy ideas It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself. Ezra Pound artist humanity The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. Ezra Pound inferiority madness genius 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 no-money aim states Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett') Ezra Pound no-friends rich remember Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound language pounds writing The temple is holy because it is not for sale. Ezra Pound temples holy When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. Ezra Pound empires kingdoms fall 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 humanity tree art Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. Ezra Pound poetry sound art What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage. Ezra Pound elysium dross heritage
