Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDA little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
-
-
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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 -
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.
EZRA POUND -
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
EZRA POUND -
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUND -
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUND -
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
EZRA POUND -
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.
EZRA POUND -
Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND -
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUND -
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
EZRA POUND -
What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUND -
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND -
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUND -
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
EZRA POUND