The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose! Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From Ezra Pound Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Ezra Pound oppression tyranny speak Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great. Ezra Pound genius taken way There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent. Ezra Pound moments ignorance natural We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden. Ezra Pound pain garden book And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges. Ezra Pound orange sweat dust America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation. Ezra Pound continents country america Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say. Ezra Pound stress emotion use I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten. Ezra Pound russia america thinking 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 legs four long Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence Ezra Pound consciousness essence reason One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. Ezra Pound patterns feet sweet 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 degrees form language 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. Ezra Pound greek latin thinking I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. Ezra Pound light children art The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. Ezra Pound action work thinking 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 garden kings men And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably. Ezra Pound knights cutting moving People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Ezra Pound judgement people ideas The natural object is always the adequate symbol. Ezra Pound adequate natural writing where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. Ezra Pound made
