Ezra Pound
22 quotations
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
Literature is news that stays news.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Wars are made to make debt.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
All great art is born of the metropolis.