Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
Ezra PoundThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra PoundThe only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.
Ezra Pound