black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND

Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUND

Age Book Growth Man Reason
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
EZRA POUND

Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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.
EZRA POUND

Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUND

Artist One Liner Race
Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUND

Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUND

Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUND

Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND

Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUND

Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUND

Blind Lying Press Theory
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

Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUND

Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
EZRA POUND

Advertisement Science Soap Way
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUND

Artist Aware Business Humanity
The 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 POUND

Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes