331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"

"There is something so degrading - at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade - that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, "he does too much."

"Hate is not born in the trenchesnor among 2nd. lieutenants."

"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."

"The shadow of the tent's peak treads on its corner pegmarking the hour. The moon split, no cloud nearer than Lucca.In the spring and autumnIn "The Spring and Autumn"therearenorighteouswars"

"Could you", wrote Mr. Jefferson,"Find me a gardenerWho can play the french horn?"

"No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it."

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

"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good"

"La gran literatura no es más que el lenguaje cargado de sentido hasta el grado máximo que sea posible."