black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

Ezra Pound

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND

Marketing Print Worth Writing
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
EZRA POUND

History International Politics Yourself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND

Freedom Himself Slave
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
EZRA POUND

Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUND

Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
EZRA POUND

Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
EZRA POUND

Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUND

Artist One Liner Race
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUND

Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUND

Choice Deep Move One Liner
Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUND

Form Rhythm Time
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
EZRA POUND

Advertisement Science Soap Way
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
EZRA POUND

Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUND

Love One Liner Remain
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUND

Himself Hold Ideas Man

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes