All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDA civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Either move or be moved.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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