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“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

“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

As quoted after his arrest for treason; see Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history http://books.google.com/books?id=lXZKAAAAMAAJ&q=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&dq=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RgacUteRAZDYoATC1IDYCg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgU by Nathaniel Weyl (1950), p. 400

“Literature is news that STAYS news.”

Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 2 (p. 29 in the 1961 paperback)

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”

Ezra Pound

“My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.”

Ezra Pound

A dinner table conversation quoted in Composed on the tongue, "Encounters will Ezra Pound" by Allen Ginsberg

“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 25

“If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him”

Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos
Context: If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have not order within him
His family will not act with due order;
And if the prince have not order within him
He can not put order in his dominions.

“Who brought this to pass?
Who has brought the flaming imperial anger?
Who has brought the army with drums and with kettle-drums?
Barbarous kings.
A gracious spring, turned to blood-ravenous autumn,
A turmoil of wars-men, spread over the middle kingdom,
Three hundred and sixty thousand,
And sorrow, sorrow like rain.”

Ezra Pound

'Lament of the Frontier Guard' (From Cathay, 1915)

“Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument”

Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos

“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

Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Variant: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”

Ezra Pound

“Rhythmhave meaning.”

Ezra Pound