Ezra Pound

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime…

— Ezra Pound

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

— Ezra Pound

“Go in fear of abstractions.”

— Ezra Pound

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

— Ezra Pound

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

— Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

— Ezra Pound

Wars are made to make debt.

— Ezra Pound

“ The Lake Isle O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a…

— Ezra Pound

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

— Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning.

— Ezra Pound

“If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him; And if a man have not order…

— Ezra Pound

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life,…

— Ezra Pound

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you…

— Ezra Pound

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in…

— Ezra Pound

Artists are the antennae of the race.

— Ezra Pound

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional…

— Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

— Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

— Ezra Pound

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,…

— Ezra Pound

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

— Ezra Pound

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or…

— Ezra Pound

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

— Ezra Pound

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

— Ezra Pound

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

— Ezra Pound