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Ezra Pound - From the Aging category:
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Art category:
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue... Good art cannot be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Art category:
But the one thing you should not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts only. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Artists category:
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Books category:
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Books category:
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Business category:
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Collectors category:
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Communication category:
The artist is the antenna of the race. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Composition category:
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Criticism category:
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Critics category:
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Culture category:
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Eccentricity category:
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Education category:
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheep-herding. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Emotion category:
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Excellence category:
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Fire category:
No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Freedom category:
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Future category:
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Genius category:
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Genius category:
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Greatness category:
All great art is born of the metropolis. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Greatness category:
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Humanity category:
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Ideas category:
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Joy category:
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Keys category:
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Language category:
Great Literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Leisure category:
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Magic category:
If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Modernism category:
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Money category:
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Music category:
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Nature category:
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Originality category:
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Power category:
Properly, we should read for power. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Profession category:
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Questions category:
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)
Ezra Pound - From the Religion category:
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Religion category:
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Rhythm category:
Rhythm must have meaning. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Satisfaction category:
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Sculpture category:
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant, monster with one eye going around a square corner. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Selling category:
No picture is made to endure, nor to live with, but it is made to sell and sell quickly. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Selling category:
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Solitude category:
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Standards category:
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Survival category:
I could, I trust, starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Technique category:
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Tyranny category:
Speak against unconscious oppression, / Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, / Speak against bonds. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Understanding category:
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Vision category:
Glance is the enemy of vision. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Wisdom category:
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Worth category:
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound - From the Writing category:
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. (Ezra Pound)
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