Ezra Pound Quotes

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

“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.”

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”

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

“Either move or be moved.”

“Literature is news that stays news.”