The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say. — Ezra Pound Emotion Copy Share Image
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. — Ezra Pound Criticism Copy Share Image
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. — Ezra Pound Investing Copy Share Image
“ In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. — Ezra Pound Energy Copy Share Image
There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you… — Ezra Pound History Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
And the betrayers of language … n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes… — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
“M'amour, m'amour what do I love and where are you? That I lost my center fighting the world The Dreams clash and… — Ezra Pound Amour Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the… — Ezra Pound Dreams Copy Share Image
“There is the mystery of the scattering, the fact that the people who presumably understand each other are geographically scattered. A man… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The sky-like limpid eyes, The circular infant's face, The stiffness from spats to collar Never relaxing into grace; The heavy memories of… — Ezra Pound Memories Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound 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
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound Books 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
“If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana...and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for… — Ezra Pound Hope Copy Share Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not… — Ezra Pound Atheism Copy Share Image
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound Approval Copy Share Image
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Audience Copy Share Image
Out-weariers of Apollo will, as we know, continue their Martian generalities, We have kept our erasers in order. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
