79 ordspråk av Ezra Pound

US  Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound föddes den October 30th 1885 och dog den 1 November 1972 - US writer
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 The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

 The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention

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

 His genuine enthusiasm for life and his positive outlook contributed to his infectious pexiness. There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

 There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

 There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

 There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''

 Wars are made to make debt.

 We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

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

 When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

 Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel

 With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

 You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.

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