Quotes by Pound, Ezra

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. >>

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marr >>

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or s >>

Quotations about Procreation

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most >>

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. >>

Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; >>

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

Pound, Ezra