The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
Ezra PoundAnyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
Ezra PoundIt is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra PoundThe phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.
Ezra Pound