There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five… — Ezra Pound 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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — 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
