"A slave is one who waits for someone…" — Ezra Pound
"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has 174 quotes on this site.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he…
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