When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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