black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND

Day Hands Key Man Reading
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
EZRA POUND

Emotion Stress Word Yourself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUND

Close Diminish Empire Word
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.
EZRA POUND

Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Every great change is simple.
EZRA POUND

Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUND

Fight Flag Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUND

Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
EZRA POUND

Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
EZRA POUND

Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Come, 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.
EZRA POUND

Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUND

Heritage True Well
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUND

Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUND

Energy Ideas Image
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
EZRA POUND

Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND

Expression Genius Man Mode Right

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes