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title: "3 Careless Quotes By Ezra Pound"
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> ['Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/tis-not-need-we-know-our-every-thought-or-see-the-work-shop-where/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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> [A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/a-crowd-pagan-as-ever-imperial-rome-was-eager-careless-with-an-animal/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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> [A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/a-crowd-pagan-as-ever-imperial-rome-was-eager-careless-with-an-animal-2/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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## Other authors on Careless

## More by Ezra Pound

> [“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/i-once-saw-a-small-child-go-to-an-electric-light-switch-as-say-mamma/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/till-now-they-send-him-dreams-and-no-more-deed-so-doth-he-flame-again/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/a-great-age-of-literature-is-perhaps-always-a-great-age-of/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/it-would-be-about-as-easy-for-an-american-to-become-a-chinaman-or-a/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/poets-who-are-not-interested-in-music-are-or-become-bad-poets/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/anyone-who-is-too-lazy-to-master-the-comparatively-small-glossary/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/mass-ought-to-be-in-latin-unless-you-could-do-it-in-greek-or-chinese/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/where-the-dead-walked-and-the-living-were-made-of-cardboard/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [Liberty is not a right but a duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/liberty-is-not-a-right-but-a-duty/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/the-artist-is-always-beginning-any-work-of-art-which-is-not-a/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/any-general-statement-is-like-a-cheque-drawn-on-a-bank-its-value/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/the-author-s-conviction-on-this-day-of-new-year-is-that-music-begins/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/in-case-i-conk-out-this-is-provisionally-what-i-have-to-do-i-must/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/adolf-hitler-was-a-jeanne-d-arc-a-saint-he-was-a-martyr/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

> [I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/i-could-i-trust-starve-like-a-gentleman-it-s-listed-as-part-of-the/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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