TOP 20 Ezra Pound Quotes.
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“Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’”
— Ezra Pound (00:00)

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
— Ezra Pound (00:07)

“America is a lunatic asylum.”
— Ezra Pound (00:14)

“Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.”
— Ezra Pound (00:21)

“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.”
— Ezra Pound (00:28)

“Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.”
— Ezra Pound (00:35)

“The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.”
— Ezra Pound (00:42)

“Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
— Ezra Pound (00:49)

“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”
— Ezra Pound (00:56)

“If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.”
— Ezra Pound (01:03)

“The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.”
— Ezra Pound (01:10)

“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.”
— Ezra Pound (01:17)

“What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.”
— Ezra Pound (01:24)

“USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.”
— Ezra Pound (01:31)

“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.”
— Ezra Pound (01:38)

“Presentation, not reference...”
— Ezra Pound (01:45)

“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 (01:52)

“Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.”
— Ezra Pound (01:59)

“What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.”
— Ezra Pound (02:06)

“Either move or be moved.”
— Ezra Pound (02:13)

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