Best Ezra Pound Thoughts
- The temple is holy because it is not for sale Holy
- And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight… Association
- The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but… Choose
- I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let… Forgive
- You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one… Average
- I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Desired
- If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good Good
- where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. Cardboard
- I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you. Dawn
- We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on… Anesthetized
- What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. Depth
- A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. Attainability
- To break the pentameter, that was the first heave Break
- 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Bid
- Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he… Amount
- If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the… Art
- Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their… Amount
- There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. Books
- The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Act
- One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A… Age
- Out-weariers of Apollo will, as we know, continue their Martian generalities, We have kept our erasers in order. Apollo
- But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied, Heap up mine arms, be tombby sea-bord, and inscribed: A man of no fortune, and… Arms
- I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile. Beaten
- There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization. Among
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