Ezra Pound Quotes & Quotations

Ezra Pound Quotes

» 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.

» Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

» If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

» A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

» People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

» The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

» I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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