There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
EZRA POUND All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
EZRA POUND The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
EZRA POUND Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
EZRA POUND The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
EZRA POUND Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
EZRA POUND The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
EZRA POUND It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
EZRA POUND No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
EZRA POUND A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herdi...
EZRA POUND I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up...
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herdi...
EZRA POUND Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
EZRA POUND As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow ...
EZRA POUND Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simpl...
EZRA POUND We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized o...
EZRA POUND The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged on...
EZRA POUND The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can unde...
EZRA POUND You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
EZRA POUND I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
EZRA POUND Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly propo...
EZRA POUND The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
EZRA POUND There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUND I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of re...
EZRA POUND A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is ...
EZRA POUND All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUND A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
EZRA POUND Literature is news that STAYS news.
EZRA POUND It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clo...
EZRA POUND People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a she...
EZRA POUND In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse o...
EZRA POUND 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
EZRA POUND One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or perso...
EZRA POUND A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally i...
EZRA POUND I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUND The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUND Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it...
EZRA POUND If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
EZRA POUND I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I m...
EZRA POUND Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of in...
EZRA POUND No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows con...
EZRA POUND I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unk...
EZRA POUND Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
EZRA POUND Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it g...
EZRA POUND Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
EZRA POUND And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like ...
EZRA POUND The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUND Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUND All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understa...
EZRA POUND If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron t...
EZRA POUND But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is...
EZRA POUND Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the t...
EZRA POUND Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mea...
EZRA POUND The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite fem...
EZRA POUND Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the win...
EZRA POUND Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUND No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it. EZRA POUND The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, a...
EZRA POUND Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good...
EZRA POUND Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
EZRA POUND A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
EZRA POUND I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
EZRA POUND There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
EZRA POUND Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Spea...
EZRA POUND When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - c...
EZRA POUND What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it
EZRA POUND Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and l...
EZRA POUND Utter originality is, of course, out of the question
EZRA POUND I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
EZRA POUND Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree
EZRA POUND If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...
EZRA POUND Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
EZRA POUND If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi...
EZRA POUND Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel
EZRA POUND The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so call...
EZRA POUND A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUND If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have no...
EZRA POUND Нет такой формы банальности, которую нельзя без труда �...
EZRA POUND The Garden

En robe de parade.
- Samain


Like a skein of loose silk...
EZRA POUND If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
EZRA POUND Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep her...
EZRA LOOMIS POUND This is a good lift for us. We're getting there. It's on-the-job training, but we're getting there. ...
AL POUND What have we got to lose? The kid threw a bullet and he just beat it. That's the hardest run to make...
AL POUND We're playing so much better. We should have beat Keystone the other day. And we beat (Union County)...
AL POUND It's the best he's ever pitched. He's pitched pretty well all year. We finally gave him some (defens...
AL POUND They're probably the best team we've seen.
AL POUND That's probably the best Chase has ever pitched. You can't have that many errors behind you.
AL POUND This is probably the only team we play where we've got more talent. But Nate went the whole way. He'...
AL POUND That started things. (Sharper) didn't see it. He never picked it up off the bat. And then the bottom...
AL POUND We'd gotten away from making so many errors. We were just flat coming out. We had been playing decen...
AL POUND We've got a little something going.
AL POUND The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
ROSCOE POUND Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with comple...
RICHARD POUND It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseb...
RICHARD POUND The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
ROSCOE POUND Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
ROSCOE POUND Give them credit. They may be the best hitting team in this thing. They made adjustments and hit the...
AL POUND You can intimidate some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not a...
RICHARD POUND The science has got to the point where you can actually do some genetic modifications. In this Olymp...
DICK POUND I am speculating that it is clear in leaked grand jury testimony that he acknowledged he did it.
DICK POUND One expected test in spring training, an announced test during the season and one random test [aren'...
DICK POUND You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A ...
DICK POUND It may be that EPO traces disappear gradually from urine, but it cannot be that no EPO should be in ...
DICK POUND He's free to say what he wants. But it's irresponsible. It's just wrong ... the reaction he's had fr...
DICK POUND That took place before the Word Anti-Doping Agency even existed so it's a matter for the internation...
DICK POUND because they ate mom's oatmeal porridge.
DICK POUND I think that is errant nonsense, as is the claim that 'Oh well, if we let management put in these re...
DICK POUND All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that wo...
RICHARD POUND Governments have reached an important milestone. But it is also a crossroads. The convention doesn't...
DICK POUND I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,
DICK POUND I was simply defending my profession and my passion.
DICK POUND It's ... quite clear the only way there could have been a match between the code numbers and a parti...
DICK POUND Our suggestion has been to (Verbruggen), 'Why are you looking farther than the UCI in respect of dis...
DICK POUND It's .... quite clear the only way there could have been a match between the code numbers and a part...
DICK POUND It's .... quite clear the only way there could have been a match between the code numbers and a part...
DICK POUND Mr. Verbruggen told us that he showed all of the forms of Mr. Armstrong to L'Equipe and that he even...
DICK POUND We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from t...
DICK POUND I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying, 'Well, I guess we do know how the...
DICK POUND They are convinced they are fully compliant. We'll have a look at that and see whether or not we agr...
DICK POUND I've heard that it is somebody who ran one of the preliminary rounds, not the final of one of the re...
DICK POUND For some reason I just started writing and out came this play. It's a series of monologs. All of the...
DANIEL POUND I started writing it in 2002 and kept writing and kept writing and kept writing. This is a different...
DANIEL POUND I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any...
DANIEL POUND The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still
ROSCOE POUND Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA Look in the Mirror that's your competition".
MEIR EZRA Difficult roads often road to beautiful destinations.
MEIR EZRA Live your life happily
MEIR EZRA Give God your weakness and hell give you its Strength
MEIR EZRA Be your own hero
MEIR EZRA Live your Dreams
MEIR EZRA There is no elevator to the success, You have to take the stairs.
MEIR EZRA Life is a one time offer, use it well
MEIR EZRA Failure is Success in Progress
MEIR EZRA If it is important to you, then you will find a way.
If not you'll find an excuse.
MEIR EZRA Sharing is the Part of Life
MEIR EZRA Work hard & Be Proud of what you achieve
MEIR EZRA Believe is Yourself
MEIR EZRA The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
MEIR EZRA Sometimes you win, Sometimes you Learn
MEIR EZRA Every Accomplishment starts with the decision to Try
MEIR EZRA Don't call it a dream

Call it a Plan
MEIR EZRA Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs
MEIR EZRA Work Hard Dream Big
MEIR EZRA When you feel like
Quiting
Think about
Why you Started
MEIR EZRA Stop Wishing Start Doing
MEIR EZRA Wake up with determination.
go to bed
with Satisfaction
MEIR EZRA Don't Stop when you are tried.
Stop
"When you are Done !
MEIR EZRA Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other People
MEIR EZRA stay focused and never give up
MEIR EZRA Life is a journey not a Race
MEIR EZRA Stars can't shine without Darkness
MEIR EZRA Good writing is clear thinking made visible
MEIR EZRA If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
EZRA BOWEN Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.
IBA EZRA Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift st...
EZRA MILLER In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
EZRA KOENIG I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
EZRA MILLER I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigoro...
EZRA KOENIG Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you d...
EZRA KOENIG If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
EZRA KOENIG Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, runnin...
EZRA MILLER It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution becaus...
EZRA MILLER But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist withou...
EZRA STILES Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri...
EZRA STILES I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investiga...
EZRA MILLER Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's n...
GEORGE EZRA I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a ...
EZRA KOENIG We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
EZRA STILES I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
EZRA KOENIG A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possib...
EZRA STILES A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1...
EZRA STILES