Ezra Pound Quotes

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

Ezra Pound

Quotes to Explore

I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

Jackson Rathbone
- Cards
- Cash
- Boots
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

Gail Collins
- Women
- School
- Law
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

Mae Jemison
- Long
- Reality
- Earth
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

Hal Price
- Work
- Done
- History
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Edmund White
- May
- Death
- Quality
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

C. L. R. James
- World
- War
- Government