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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens.… — Ezra Pound Apathy Copy Share Image
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader… — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Animal Copy Share Image
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in… — Ezra Pound Alive Copy Share Image
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life,… — Ezra Pound Body Copy Share Image
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. — Ezra Pound Oppression Copy Share Image
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Animal Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good — Ezra Pound Greatness Copy Share Image
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was… — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
