Top Ten Ezra Pound Quotes
The Top Ten
1 Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
2 A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
3 Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
4 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.
5 No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
6 I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
7 In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Both of these are curses of the current age, and well represented by many on this site.
8 Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
9 Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
10 Either move or be moved
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