Technique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Either move or be moved.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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