No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin… — Ezra Pound Bread Copy Share Image
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound Curse Copy Share Image
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. — Ezra Pound Ideas Copy Share Image
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for… — Ezra Pound Consciousness Copy Share Image
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance… — Ezra Pound Balance Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Abstraction Copy Share Image
Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“ALBA from “Langue d’Oc” When the nightingale to his mate Sings day-long and night late My love and I keep state In… — Ezra Pound Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual… — Ezra Pound Criticism Copy Share Image
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry… — Ezra Pound Death Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the… — Ezra Pound Cancer Copy Share Image
“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ” — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion. — Ezra Pound America Copy Share Image
The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole) — Ezra Pound America Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“L'art Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.” — Ezra Pound Arsenic Copy Share Image
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu! — Ezra Pound Inspirational Copy Share Image
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron… I should have been able to do better. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like… — Ezra Pound Beautiful Copy Share Image
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and… — Ezra Pound Aliens Copy Share Image
