Pound, Ezra (Ezra Pound)

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-- Ezra Pound

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
-- Ezra Pound

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
-- Ezra Pound

Free us, for we perish
In this ever flowing monotony
Of ugly print marks, black
Upon white parchment.

-- Ezra Pound

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