The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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 POUNDI desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUNDThe art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDChrist can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
EZRA POUNDLiberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUNDA people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDSmall talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDThe real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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