Quotes by Pound, Ezra

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenien >>

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it ser >>

Wars are made to make debt. >>

Quotations about Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings >>

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. >>

Hope is the dream of a waking man. >>

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Pound, Ezra