With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUNDUse no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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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.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Come, 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.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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.
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