If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with… — 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 Copy Share Image
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — 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
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
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“There is the subtler music, the clear light Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand… — Ezra pound Copy Share Image
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. — 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
