68 Quotations by Ezra Pound
- 1. 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we ...

- 2. A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is ...

- 3. A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition ...

- 4. A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

- 5. A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

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

- 7. A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

- 8. All great art is born of the metropolis.

- 9. All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n ...

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

- 11. As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow ...

- 12. AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

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

- 14. Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally i ...

- 15. Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I m ...

- 16. Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl ...

- 17. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

- 18. Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the t ...

- 19. I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up ...

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

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