What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. — Ezra Pound Attention Copy Share Image
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. — Ezra Pound Academy Copy Share Image
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. — Ezra Pound Accuracy Copy Share Image
“All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
“Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria” — Ezra Pound Love Copy Share Image
“When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I… — Ezra Pound Animal Copy Share Image
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. — Ezra Pound Education Copy Share Image
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. — Ezra Pound Chance Copy Share Image
“And Unto thine eyes my heart Sendeth old dreams of the spring-time, Yea of wood-ways my rime Found thee and flowers in… — Ezra Pound Dreams Copy Share Image
“Love thou thy dream All base love scorning, Love thou the wind And here take warning That dreams alone can truly be,… — Ezra Pound Amore Copy Share Image
“I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem To mock me now, all night, all night, and Have I strayed… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite… — Ezra Pound Atoms Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Abundance Copy Share Image
“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all,… — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of… — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore… — Ezra Pound Bird Copy Share Image
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the… — Ezra Pound Boredom Copy Share Image
“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — Ezra Pound Adventure Copy Share Image
