Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDThe natural object is always the adequate symbol.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
-
-
The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUND -
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUND -
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUND -
Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUND -
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
EZRA POUND -
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 -
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUND -
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
EZRA POUND -
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUND -
Literature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUND -
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUND -
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUND -
Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUND -
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND -
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND






