Ezra Pound Quotes

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

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  Running, Country, Europe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every great change is simple.

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  Simple, Great Change

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

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  Speak, Oppression, Tyranny

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• The what is so much more important than how.

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  Important

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• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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  Men, Definitions, Pounds

  "Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos". Book by Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté (p. 142), 1986.

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

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  Decay, Literature, Rehabilitation

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Inability, Literature, Pounds

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

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  Essentials, Language, Poetry Is

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• Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

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  Psychics, Empowerment, Mediocre

  Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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