black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Ezra Pound

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUND

Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUND

Artist One Liner Race
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
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.
EZRA POUND

Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUND

Age Book Growth Man Reason
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
EZRA POUND

Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
EZRA POUND

Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUND

Enemy One Liner Vision
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUND

Adjective Reveal Word
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
EZRA POUND

Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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.
EZRA POUND

Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUND

Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Literature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUND

Literature News One Liner Stay
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUND

Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes