The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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The artist is always beginning.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Either move or be moved.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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