I have always thought the suicide should... | Ezra Pound

Thought

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

- Ezra Pound

Quote of the Day

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

Time

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

- Ezra Pound

Art

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.

- Ezra Pound

End Art Will

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

- Ezra Pound

Art

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

- Ezra Pound

Worth

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

- Ezra Pound

Debt

Wars are made to make debt.

- Ezra Pound

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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

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