black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Technique is the test of sincerity.

Ezra Pound

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
EZRA POUND

Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUND

Holy Sale Temple
The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUND

Artist One Liner Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUND

Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUND

Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
EZRA POUND

Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUND

Difference Spring Tree Weapon
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
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.
EZRA POUND

Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUND

Adjective Reveal Word
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUND

Break Heaven Parameter
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUND

Image Poetry Primary
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
EZRA POUND

Fight Flag Yourself
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUND

Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUND

Essential Language Poetry

Technique is the test of sincerity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Technique is the test of sincerity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes