Quotes by Pound, Ezra

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translation >>

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins t >>

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been fo >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about p >>

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn >>

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. >>

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Pound, Ezra