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

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

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound

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

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

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

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound

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

Wars are made to make debt.
Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Ezra Pound

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
Ezra Pound