Ezra Pound Quotes

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• The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

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  Lying, Two, People

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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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  War, Debt, Slavery

  Ezra Pound (1978). “"Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II”, Greenwood Press

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• Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

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  Running, Country, Europe

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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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  Men, Risk, Opinion

  "Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history". Book by Nathaniel Weyl (p. 400), 1950.

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• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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  Life, Freedom, Waiting

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• Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

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  Men, Ordinary, Genius

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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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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  Education, Real, Learning

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

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  Cancer, Cutting, Knives

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• America is a lunatic asylum.

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  America, Lunatic Asylums, Asylums

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• I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

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  Literature, Pounds, Damn

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.111, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Peace, Real, War

  Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

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  Artist, Humanity

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

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  International, Knows

  Ezra Pound (1978). “"Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II”, Greenwood Press

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Helping Others

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• The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

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  Temples, Holy

  "Ezra Pound". Poem by Ezra Pound, 1925.

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• All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

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  Despair, Too Late, Void

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• Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

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  Views, Saint, Arcs

  Interview with Edd Johnson in The Chicago Sun, May 9, 1945.

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• To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

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  States, Aim, No Money

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• And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

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  Night, Fields, Enough

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

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  Hands, Law, America

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• Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

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  Doe, Adjectives, Use

  Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.9, Fordham Univ Press

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• The what is so much more important than how.

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  Important

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• Wars are made to make debt.

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  War, Debt, Literature

  Ezra Pound (1978). “"Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II”, Greenwood Press

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• When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

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  Fall, Kingdoms, Empires

  Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.114, New Directions Publishing

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• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

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  Should Have, Years, Able

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