There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From 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 twolyingpeople Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Ezra Pound geniusordinarymen The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound realwarpeace America is a lunatic asylum. Ezra Pound lunatic-asylumsasylumsamerica 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 riskopinionmen Every great change is simple. Ezra Pound great-changesimple A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Ezra Pound freedomwaitinglife I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. Ezra Pound damnliteraturepounds Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. Ezra Pound debtslaverywar What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. Ezra Pound helping-othersinspirationallife Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound learningrealeducation 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 knivescancercutting Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Ezra Pound essentialslanguagepoetry-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 laworderthinking Wars are made to make debt. Ezra Pound debtliteraturewar Either move or be moved. Ezra Pound movedactionmoving 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 intelligentfightingmen 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 voiddespairtoo-late Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. Ezra Pound psychicsempowermentmediocre Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. Ezra Pound arcssaintviews
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