Ezra Pound Quotes

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

Someone, Him, Free

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

Art, Someone, Together

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, Men, Deep

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound

Music, Poetry, Dance

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

Men, Business, Two

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound

Genius, Expression, Mode

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound

Guess, Lunatic, Definition

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, General

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

Poetry, Beautiful, Night

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

Act, Quiet, Religions

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

Education, Men, Real

Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound

Literature, News, Stays

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

Deep, Book, Until

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, Writing, Criticism

Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound

Move, Either, Moved

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound

Genius, Ten, Ordinary

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

War, Real, Chance

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

Great, Possible, Language

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

General, Sound, Instinct

All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound

Great, Art, Born

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, Rich, Tree

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

Truth, Before, Point

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound

Give, Serious, Question

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Ezra Pound

Age, Great, Literature

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound

Long, Made, Since

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 30, 1885

Died: November 1, 1972

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