black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Ezra Pound

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
EZRA POUND

Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUND

Holy Sale Temple
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUND

Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUND

Black Crowd Face Wet
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUND

Cancer Life World
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
EZRA POUND

Day Enough Night Shake
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUND

Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
EZRA POUND

Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUND

Blind Lying Press Theory
Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUND

Body Bone Small Talk
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
EZRA POUND

History International Politics Yourself
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

Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND

Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUND

Heritage True Well
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND

Decline Education Literature Nation
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
EZRA POUND

Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes