black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The what is so much more important than how.

Ezra Pound

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
EZRA POUND

Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUND

Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND

Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
EZRA POUND

Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUND

Heritage True Well
All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUND

Art Born Greatness Metropolis
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND

Decline Education Literature Nation
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
EZRA POUND

Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
EZRA POUND

Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process 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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND

Day Hands Key Man Reading
The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUND

History Known
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
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUND

Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUND

Body Bone Small Talk

The what is so much more important than how.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The what is so much more important than how.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Pound Quotes