Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDIf a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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.
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