Ezra Loomis Pound quotes Born: 10/30/1885 Died: 11/01/1972 Country: usa

• 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 save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. (Ezra Pound) [more/youth]
• All great art is born of the metropolis. (Ezra Pound) [art]
• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. (Ezra Pound)
• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. (Ezra Pound) [willpower/give/question/balance]
• In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. (Ezra Pound) [time/print]
• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. (Ezra Pound) [organism/willpower/]
• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. (Ezra Pound) [people]
• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. (Ezra Pound)
• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood. (Ezra Pound) [think]
• 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. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty. (Ezra Pound) [life/strange/day/words]
• 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 artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. (Ezra Pound) [artist/needs/money/needs]
• AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? (Ezra Pound) [mind/take/interest]
• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. (Ezra Pound) [slave]
• Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. (Ezra Pound) [value]
• A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. (Ezra Pound) [genius/right]
• If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. (Ezra Pound) [truth/system/being/point]
• It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. (Ezra Pound) [artist/artist/find/more]
• You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag. (Ezra Pound) [take]
• It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio. (Ezra Pound) [paradise/find]
• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. (Ezra Pound) [more/brain/development/content]
• 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 get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left. (Ezra Pound) [chance/right//time]
• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. (Ezra Pound)
• People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. (Ezra Pound) [people/find/]
• Literature is news that stays news. (Ezra Pound) [literature/news/news]
• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. (Ezra Pound) [literature/language]
• 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. (Ezra Pound) [literature/writers/ability/writers]
• The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. (Ezra Pound) [intellect/nice/people/take]
• The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. (Ezra Pound) [art/mail/willpower/start]
• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. (Ezra Pound) [water/pleasure/lady]
• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. (Ezra Pound) [more/]
• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti. (Ezra Pound) [nerves/nerves/impulse/group]

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