black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUND

Essential Language Poetry
Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUND

Form Rhythm Time
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
EZRA POUND

Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
EZRA POUND

Book Man Touch
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
EZRA POUND

Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
EZRA POUND

Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUND

Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
EZRA POUND

Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND

Loan One Liner War
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUND

Heritage Love True Well
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUND

Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUND

Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND

Decline Education Literature Nation
Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUND

Enemy One Liner Vision
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
EZRA POUND

Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes