Famous Quotes / Ezra Pound
68 Quotations by Ezra Pound
- 41. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- 42. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- 43. Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
- 44. One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or perso ...
- 45. People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a she ...
- 46. Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
- 47. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herdi ...
- 48. Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
- 49. Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of in ...
- 50. The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe ...
- 51. The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
- 52. The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
- 53. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
- 54. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
- 55. The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
- 56. The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can unde ...
- 57. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite fem ...
- 58. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite fem ...
- 59. The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged on ...
- 60. The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voila une chose!! You try it. You tr ...