The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to… — Ezra Pound 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 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 Copy Share Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — 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 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 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 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 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 using the… — 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 council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound 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 Englishness or… — Ezra Pound 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 reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — 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 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 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 dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
