68 Quotations by Ezra Pound
- 21. I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I m ...
- 22. I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
- 23. I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unk ...
- 24. I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
- 25. I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of re ...
- 26. If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
- 27. If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron t ...
- 28. If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b ...
- 29. In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse o ...
- 30. It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write ...
- 31. It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clo ...
- 32. It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in ...
- 33. Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly propo ...
- 34. Literature is news that stays news.
- 35. Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simpl ...
- 36. Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that ...
- 37. Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understa ...
- 38. Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it g ...
- 39. No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows con ...
- 40. No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows con ...
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