Ezra Pound Quotes

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• The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and…
• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
• I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
• The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
• The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never…
• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
• All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.…
• Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
• The artist is the antenna of the race.
• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and…
• If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the…
• Wars are made to make debt.
• There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to…
• The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
• The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
• Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
• A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
• The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
• 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 poetry…

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