If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 contents. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. Ezra Pound American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
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 American Editor More Ezra Pound Quotes 0