What did Ezra Pound mean by: If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. - Ezra Pound Poet · USA Copy
+ Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ezra Pound, Debt, Slavery, Wars, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ezra Pound, Creativity, Exploration, Nature, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ Artists are the antennae of the race. Feraz Zeid, September 14, 2023December 24, 2023, Ezra Pound, Artist, Race, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ The artist is the antenna of the race. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Ezra Pound, Art, Artist, Race, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ezra Pound, Decline, Kingdoms, Words, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ezra Pound, Art, Human, Self-awareness, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, Ezra Pound, Book, Reading, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
+ Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Ezra Pound, Criticism, Writing, 0 - Ezra Pound Poet · USA
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. Explain - Ludwig von Mises Economist · Austria
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. - Jean-Jacques Annaud Director · France
