black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUND

Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUND

History Known
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
EZRA POUND

Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUND

Close Diminish Empire Word
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND

Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUND

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

Advertisement Science Soap Way
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUND

Break Heaven Parameter
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUND

Course Original Question
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
EZRA POUND

Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUND

Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUND

Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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

Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUND

Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUND

Image Poetry Primary
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

Cancer Life World

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes