When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDCome, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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