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Ezra Pound Quotes

Ezra Pound

American poet, critic and intellectual

Nationality: American
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Type: Poet
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Birth: 1885-1972
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a Writerhas to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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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 wor
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and t
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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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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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance musi
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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the Writerthinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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