Ezra Pound Quotes

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that…

— Joseph Epstein

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

— Ezra Pound

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

— Gertrude Stein

Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

— Ash Sarkar

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people…

— Tony Harrison

T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were…

— Sally Mann

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in…

— Jacques Barzun

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and…

— Bob Dylan

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what…

— Anne Stevens

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough…

— Charles Bukowski

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do…

— Stephen Malkmus

I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center…

— Lynne Tillman

Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is…

— Ted Kooser

The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And…

— Anne Waldman

I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is…

— Sam Hamill

“Love thou thy dream All base love scorning, Love thou the wind And here take warning That dreams alone can truly be,…

— Ezra Pound

“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .…

— Anne Waldman

One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.…

— Richard Misrach

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they…

— Gertrude Stein

“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up…

— Elliott Colla

“Hardy’s astonishing technical versatility has won the admiration of major poets from Ezra Pound and Cecil Day Lewis to Philip Larkin. Among…

— Geoffrey Harvey

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…

— Salman Rushdie

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kindof village and people keep explaining things when they live…

— Gertrude Stein

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by…

— Laura Riding

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are…

— Randall Jarrell