The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. — Ezra Pound Apparitions Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Empires Copy Share Image
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. — Ezra Pound Astronomy Copy Share Image
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound Biology Copy Share Image
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. — Ezra Pound Brain Copy Share Image
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire,… — Ezra Pound Desire Copy Share Image
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound” — Ezra Pound Criticism Copy Share Image
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of… — Ezra Pound Absolutes Copy Share Image
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Adolescence Copy Share Image
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital… — Ezra Pound Brain Copy Share Image
The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Fitness Copy Share Image
