black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
EZRA POUND

Country Definition Democracy Run
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.
EZRA POUND

Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUND

Heritage True Well
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUND

Break Heaven Parameter
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUND

Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUND

Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUND

Energy Ideas Image
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUND

Myself Racism Worth
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUND

Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
EZRA POUND

Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUND

Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUND

Love One Liner Remain
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND

Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUND

Body Bone Small Talk
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
EZRA POUND

Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND

Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes