Ezra Pound Quotes

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Ezra Pound

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 30, 1885

Either move or be moved.

Ezra Pound

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

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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 world; he creates.

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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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Literature is news that stays news.

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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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Wars are made to make debt.

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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Ezra Pound