black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Ezra Pound

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

Capture Myself Silence
Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUND

Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Every great change is simple.
EZRA POUND

Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUND

Artist Beginning One Liner
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND

Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND

Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
EZRA POUND

Day Enough Night Shake
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUND

Course Original Question
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.
EZRA POUND

Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND

Loan One Liner War
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUND

Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
EZRA POUND

Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUND

Artist One Liner Race
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND

Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes