Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Either move or be moved.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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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.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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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.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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.
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