As uncovered by the climate blog desmogblog, the Ethical Oil meme dates to a 2010 book by Ezra Levant.
I was also drawn to the work of Ezra Pound and Robert Creeley.
“Ezra was the most generous writer I have ever known,” Hemingway later remarked.
Ezra Pound offered to make useful connections for Joyce, and find places where he could publish his writings.
Ezra Pound ranks among the finest poets of his generation, but his greatest trait may have been his eye for talent in others.
So Ezra sed: "Wall, here's your money; now what do you want in trade?"
"Ezra needs bracing'," she heard her mother say, in many a sick-room gossip.
"Well, I hadn't any expectation o' your bein' here," said Ezra.
We hear it in the prayer of men like Ezra and Nehemiah and Daniel.
The two days and nights following Ezra's departure had been strenuous and provoking.
masc. proper name, in Old Testament name of a celebrated 5c. B.C.E. scribe, from Late Latin, from Hebrew Ezra, contraction of Azaryah(u), literally "God has helped," from ezer "help" + Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh "God."
