Ezra Pound Quotes
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Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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America is a lunatic asylum.
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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
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No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Either move or be moved.
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Every great change is simple.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.
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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
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It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.