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Letter "E" » Ezra Pound Quotes
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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.»
«The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
brainwash, brainwashing, clarity, one at a time, packaged, Twenty Five
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
anesthetized, chronological, chronological sequence, convenient, dates, here and there, paste, pasted, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sequence, spiral, spiraling, spirals, table, The Sequence
«One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.»
«The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bell, bell ringing, implies, interference, pointless, ringing, symbolic, The Quiet
«I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bump, bumped, bumping, bumps, bump into, bump off, swine, Taking Off
«In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
earlier, illiteracy, inability, In Our Time, monetary, print
«Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
abracadabra, ape, bloody, Chinese, Greek, Latin
«I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
breed, bundle, consent, lacking, nerves, reasonableness, reproducing, stud, studded, studs, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, Tahiti, The Nerves, tribal, wealthy
«Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
die out, doomed, extinction, organism
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