Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. — Ezra Pound Attention Copy Share Image
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. — Ezra Pound Accuracy Copy Share Image
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. — Ezra Pound Academy Copy Share Image
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Out-weariers of Apollo will, as we know, continue their Martian generalities, We have kept our erasers in order. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.… — Ezra Pound Ability 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 Art Copy Share Image
“Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.” — 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 Art Copy Share Image
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers… — Ezra Pound Butlers Copy Share Image
“And Unto thine eyes my heart Sendeth old dreams of the spring-time, Yea of wood-ways my rime Found thee and flowers in… — Ezra Pound Dreams Copy Share Image
“Love thou thy dream All base love scorning, Love thou the wind And here take warning That dreams alone can truly be,… — Ezra Pound Amore Copy Share Image
“I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem To mock me now, all night, all night, and Have I strayed… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise… — Ezra Pound Achievement Copy Share Image
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
