The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
EZRA POUNDThe modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUNDSmall talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDHumanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
EZRA POUNDThe difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUNDAny general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
EZRA POUNDThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUNDA people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDDon’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDI guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUNDNothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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