When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Empires Copy Share Image
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. — Ezra Pound Apparitions Copy Share Image
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. — Ezra Pound Astronomy Copy Share Image
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. — Ezra Pound Sincerity Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep… — Ezra Pound Book Copy Share Image
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. — Ezra Pound Ashes 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 Audience Copy Share Image
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound Approval Copy Share Image
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of… — Ezra Pound Absolutes Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Abundance 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 Art Copy Share Image
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital… — Ezra Pound Brain Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Adolescence Copy Share Image
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Birth Copy Share Image
The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — Ezra Pound Adventure Copy Share Image
Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore… — Ezra Pound Bird Copy Share Image
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the… — Ezra Pound Boredom Copy Share Image
“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all,… — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of… — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
