Ezra Pound/Quotes
No Rothschild is English. No Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Kahn, Schiff, Sieff, or Solomon was ever born Anglo-Saxon. And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you murdered your Empire. It is this filth that elects, selects your politicians.
Literature is news that stays news.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
From rod@rodremelin.com