Ezra Pound

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ”

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ”

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ”

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

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. ”

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ”

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ”

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ”

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

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. ”