Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
EZRA POUNDNothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Every great change is simple.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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.
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The artist is always beginning.
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