Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
EZRA POUNDThe serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
-
-
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUND -
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
EZRA POUND -
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND -
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUND -
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
EZRA POUND -
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUND -
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND -
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUND -
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUND -
The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUND -
Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND -
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.
EZRA POUND -
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUND -
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
EZRA POUND -
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUND -
All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUND -
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 -
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUND -
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND -
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
EZRA POUND -
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUND -
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.
EZRA POUND -
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUND -
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUND -
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
EZRA POUND -
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUND