“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
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Famous Ezra Pound Quotes
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
Source: A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska
Source: Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
Source: ABC of Reading
“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
Source: Guide to Kulchur
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924