Ezra Pound Quotes

Ezra Pound (55)

Birth:	30th October, 1885
Death:	1st November, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Poet

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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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  Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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• Speak against unconscious oppression,
  Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
  Speak against bonds.

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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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• When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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• When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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• Wars are made to make debt.

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• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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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 modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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• The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

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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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• The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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• Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

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• Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

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• Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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• People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

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• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

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• No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

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