Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' — Ezra Pound Country Copy Share Image
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. — Ezra Pound Europe Copy Share Image
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. — Ezra Pound Advertising Copy Share Image
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. — Ezra Pound Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. — Ezra Pound Energy Copy Share Image
“ In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. — Ezra Pound Apricot Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual… — Ezra Pound Criticism Copy Share Image
Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens.… — Ezra Pound Apathy Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Abstraction Copy Share Image
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“ALBA from “Langue d’Oc” When the nightingale to his mate Sings day-long and night late My love and I keep state In… — Ezra Pound Nightingale Copy Share Image
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and… — Ezra Pound Aliens Copy Share Image
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like… — Ezra Pound Beautiful Copy Share Image
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. — Ezra Pound Architecture 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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound Human wisdom Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound Fame Copy Share Image
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound Complexes 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… — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it… — Ezra Pound Attention Copy Share Image
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. — Ezra Pound Amendment Copy Share Image
But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied, Heap up mine arms, be tombby sea-bord, and inscribed: A man of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least… — Ezra Pound Books 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
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
