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.
EZRA POUNDI found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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The artist is always beginning.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Either move or be moved.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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