Ezra Pound

“Go in fear of abstractions.”

— Ezra Pound

The artist is the antenna of the race.

— Ezra Pound

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

— Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning.

— Ezra Pound

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

— Ezra Pound

What counts is the cultural level

— Ezra Pound

Technique is the test of sincerity.

— Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.

— Ezra Pound

I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile.

— Ezra Pound

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

— Ezra Pound

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound

“yr/ humanity counterfeit yr/ liberty cankered with simulation ”

— Ezra Pound

“Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.”

— Ezra Pound

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

— Ezra Pound

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

— Ezra Pound

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

— Ezra Pound

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

— Ezra Pound

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

— Ezra Pound

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that…

— Ezra Pound

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build…

— Ezra Pound

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

— Ezra Pound

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I…

— Ezra Pound

“ In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.”

— Ezra Pound

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

— Ezra Pound

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise…

— Ezra Pound

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody…

— Ezra Pound

“The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of…

— Ezra Pound

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the…

— Ezra Pound

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with…

— Ezra Pound

“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad…

— Ezra Pound

“There is the subtler music, the clear light Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand…

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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers…

— Ezra Pound

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and…

— Ezra Pound

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of…

— Ezra Pound

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in…

— Ezra Pound

“دختر درختي به دستانم سبز شده، شيره بر بازوانم جوشيده، درخت در سينه‏ام شكفته -- سر به زير، شاخه‏ها ،چون بازوان، از…

— Ezra Pound

“We claim no glory. If the tempest rolls About us we have fear, and then Having so small a stake grow bold…

— Ezra Pound

“Yes, but bad language is bound to make in addition bad government, whereas good language is not bound to make bad government.…

— Ezra Pound

“When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men;…

— Ezra Pound

“ The Lake Isle O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a…

— Ezra Pound