Ezra Pound Quotes
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America is a lunatic asylum.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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 witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Every great change is simple.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
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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, are uninteresting.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.