“what thou lovest well is thy true heritage what thou lovest well shall not be reft from thee” — Ezra Pound Culture Copy Share Image
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. — Ezra Pound Anti semitism Copy Share Image
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. — Ezra Pound Europe Copy Share Image
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound Civilization Copy Share Image
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional… — Ezra Pound Complexes Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the… — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound Complexes Copy Share Image
But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied, Heap up mine arms, be tombby sea-bord, and inscribed: A man of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least… — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Birth Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Abstract Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,… — Ezra Pound Despair Copy Share Image
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Ability Copy Share Image
“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“that the body of light come forth from the body of fire And that your eyes come to the surface from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' — Ezra Pound Country Copy Share Image
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound Fame Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound Human wisdom Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. — Ezra Pound Advertising Copy Share Image
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. — Ezra Pound Architecture Copy Share Image
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. — Ezra Pound Depth Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
