27 Ezra Pound Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ezra Pound

American Poet

Born: Oct 30, 1885

Died: Nov 1, 1972

Art Book Literature Man Value Worth

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

Either move or be moved. Ezra Pound

Motivational Move Moved Either

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound

Beautiful World Most Beautiful Will Flame Down Stars Our City Poetry Beautiful City New Like Most Up Squares York New York After Urban Cut Far Here Night Set Pulled

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Ezra Pound

Free Someone Come Him Waits Who Slave

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound

Life Man Book Men Seen Books Rate He Part Until Contents Understand Understands Least Any Certain Deep Lived Amount

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. 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

Energy Fused More Idea Vortex Ideas Than Endowed Cluster Image

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

Worth Damn Never Known Anyone Who

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

Business Men Unnecessary Always Them Agree Two

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. Ezra Pound

Humanity Soil Rich Tree Arts Manure Waste Grows

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

Nation Decay Literature

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. Ezra Pound

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

Good Man Good Job Job Verse Wants Who

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. Ezra Pound

Loathing Some General Instinct Sound Gang Basis

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

Art Wax Poetry Real Dummy Barber Sculpture

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound

Great Language Degree Possible Charged Great Literature Simply Literature Meaning Utmost

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound

Value Meet Statement Drawn General Check Like Any Bank Depends

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has 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. Ezra Pound

Work Fruit Writing Value Criticism Own Other Consider Unless Later Statement Sometime Writer Clear Excitement Head Merely Come His Up Created Preliminary Things

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

Art Will Before Shall Come End Survive Curiosity Letters

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

Worth Nothing Pay Market Has-Been Only Written Printing Been Against

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

Somebody Living Said Am Tragedy American Europe Last

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

Art Religion Numerous Those Resulting Attempt Failures Another Oh Just

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

Worth Value Say Sincerity Test Inferior Getting Technique Thing

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