black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
EZRA POUND

Advertisement Science Soap Way
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
EZRA POUND

Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUND

Holy Sale Temple
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUND

Capture Myself Silence
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.
EZRA POUND

Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
EZRA POUND

Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
EZRA POUND

Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
EZRA POUND

Education Insist Limit Reality
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
EZRA POUND

Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
EZRA POUND

Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
EZRA POUND

Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
EZRA POUND

Approval Ban Believe Music View
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUND

Adjective Reveal Word
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUND

Himself Hold Ideas Man
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

Literature is news that stays news.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Literature is news that stays news.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes