What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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.
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