black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUND

Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUND

Black Crowd Face Wet
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
EZRA POUND

Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUND

Form Rhythm Time
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUND

Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUND

Himself Hold Ideas Man
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
EZRA POUND

Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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
Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND

Loan One Liner War
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND

Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
EZRA POUND

Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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.
EZRA POUND

Build Money Pursue State
Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUND

Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUND

Important Reason
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUND

Glamour Leadership Light

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes