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The real trouble with war (mo...

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Good writers are those who ke...

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

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

In our time, the curse is mon...

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Technique is the test of sinc...

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

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Gloom and solemnity are entir...

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Good art however 'immoral' is...

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Real education must ultimatel...

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Genius... is the capacity to ...

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

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

A great age of literature is ...

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The image is more than an ide...

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

A civilized man is one who wi...

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The modern artist must live b...

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.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

I have always thought the sui...

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

If a nation's literature decl...

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Colloquial poetry is to the r...

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

What thou lov'st well is thy ...

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Nothing written for pay is wo...

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

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Humanity is the rich effluviu...

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Men do not understand books u...

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

When two men in business alwa...

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

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

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