Ezra Pound Quotes & Quotations

Ezra Pound Quotes

» Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

» 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.

» I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

» I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

» But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

» Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

» Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

» I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

» No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

» 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.

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