There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. Ezra Pound here-and-there time past The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. Ezra Pound differences gun spring The only history that matters is the history we know. Ezra Pound matter knows The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. Ezra Pound flavor generations book In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound inability literature pounds Liberty is not a right but a duty. Ezra Pound duty liberty rights Literature is news that stays news. Ezra Pound inspiration reading book Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art". Ezra Pound atheism art religion 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 Ezra Pound fields enough night Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality. Ezra Pound law hands america Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound vacuums use doe Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. Ezra Pound originality courses Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite. Ezra Pound squares mind giving Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art. Ezra Pound men two art Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. Ezra Pound crafts fundamentals writing The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. Ezra Pound race stupid mistake Rhythm is form cut into time. Ezra Pound rhythm cutting form Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction. Ezra Pound land expression writing The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold. Ezra Pound heart death lying Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. Ezra Pound printing literature pay
