The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. — 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 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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on… — 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
Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in… — 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
