Ezra Pound Quotes

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Ezra Pound

Wrong, Arts, Suppose

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound

Art, Poetry, Real

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Ezra Pound

Art, Heart, Study

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.
Ezra Pound

Good, Art, True

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound

Good, Keep, Language

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound

Trust, Training, Gentleman

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Ezra Pound

Thought, Before, Off

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Ezra Pound

Worth, Anyone, Known

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Ezra Pound

Nation, Literature, Decays

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
Ezra Pound

Money, Art, Makes

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound

Music, Bad, Church

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound

Time, Read, Curse

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.
Ezra Pound

Social, Ability, Literature

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Ezra Pound

Good, Job, Wants

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound

Nothing, Against, Worth

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound

Live, Find, Between

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.
Ezra Pound

Power, Book, Light

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Ezra Pound

Religion, Art, Another

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
Ezra Pound

Living, Said, American

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound

Getting, Worth, Value

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Ezra Pound

Art, End, Before

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound

Energy, Idea, Ideas

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Ezra Pound

Why, Around, Eye

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.
Ezra Pound

Work, Live, Violence

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Ezra Pound

Stupid, Made, Worst

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 30, 1885

Died: November 1, 1972

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