The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
EZRA POUNDA real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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