The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — 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
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid… — 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
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average… — Ezra Pound 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
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound 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 ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
