Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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