“Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation. — Ezra Pound America Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Age Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. — Ezra Pound Criticism Copy Share Image
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire,… — Ezra Pound Desire Copy Share Image
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. — Ezra Pound Brain Copy Share Image
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — 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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound Biology Copy Share Image
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound” — Ezra Pound Criticism Copy Share Image
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound Civilization Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody… — Ezra Pound Abracadabra Copy Share Image
“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Art Copy Share Image
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“There is the subtler music, the clear light Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand… — Ezra pound Metaphysical Copy Share Image
“The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of… — Ezra Pound Freedom Copy Share Image
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like… — Ezra Pound Beautiful Copy Share Image
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say. — Ezra Pound Emotion Copy Share Image
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. — Ezra Pound Inspirational Copy Share Image
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. — Ezra Pound Depth Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. — Ezra Pound Books Copy Share Image
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. — Ezra Pound Investing Copy Share Image
