black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

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

Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
EZRA POUND

Build Money Pursue State
What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUND

Love One Liner Remain
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUND

Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
EZRA POUND

Better Finding Mental Myself
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

Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
EZRA POUND

Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUND

Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUND

Image Poetry Primary
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUND

Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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.
EZRA POUND

Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUND

Myself Racism Worth
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
EZRA POUND

Day Enough Night Shake
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUND

Fools One Liner Spontaneous
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND

Decline Education Literature Nation
The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUND

Artist Beginning One Liner

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes