Best Ezra Pound Words
- In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Centuries
- Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Charged
- Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Inferior
- I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably… Antecedent
- But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts… Art
- The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. Anti
- Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. Allow
- Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of… Art
- I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Gentleman
- If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. Appreciate
- No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. Good
- People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Bore
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Alive
- Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Art
- The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. Art
- If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal… Commit
- The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife,… Artist
- Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true… Art
- Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their… Ability
- The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye… Admire
- There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Book
- This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man. Book
- And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the… Days
- The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. Apparition
- Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Bonds
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