Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDThe curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
EZRA POUNDThe real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUNDIf a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDSeems 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.
EZRA POUNDTo 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.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDCome, 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 POUNDUse no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDGood art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
EZRA POUNDA 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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