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All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.
— Ezra Pound
Artists are the antennae of the race.
— Ezra Pound
Rhythm must have meaning.
— Ezra Pound
Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into people's faces, / Will you find your lost dead among them?
— Ezra Pound
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.(on Ezra Pound) — Gertrude Stein
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
— Ezra Pound
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
— Ezra Pound
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
— Ezra Pound
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
— Ezra Pound
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
— Ezra Pound
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
— Ezra Pound
Presentation, not reference ...
— Ezra Pound
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
— Ezra Pound
America is a lunatic asylum.
— Ezra Pound
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
— Ezra Pound
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Ezra Pound — Ezra Pound
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
— Ezra Pound
The artist is the antenna of the race.
— Ezra Pound
Wars are made to make debt.
— Ezra Pound
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
— Ezra Pound
The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
— Ezra Pound
Go in fear of abstractions.
— Ezra Pound
Properly, we should read for power.
— Ezra Pound
Rhythm is form cut into time.
— Ezra Pound
![Pound Ezra Quotes By Gertrude Stein: [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/pound-ezra-quotes-by-gertrude-stein-1392790.jpg "Pound Ezra Quotes By Gertrude Stein: [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if")
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
— Gertrude Stein
The what is so much more important than how.
— Ezra Pound
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
— Ezra Pound
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
— Ezra Pound
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
— Ezra Pound
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
— Ezra Pound
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic I mean my motion. — Ezra Pound
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
— Ezra Pound
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
— Ezra Pound
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
— Ezra Pound
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
— Ezra Pound
All great art is born of the metropolis.
— Ezra Pound
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
— Ezra Pound
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
— Ezra Pound
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
— Ezra Pound
But I am like the grass, I can not love you.
— Ezra Pound
Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,
And thou shalt live for ever. — Ezra Pound
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
— Ezra Pound
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
— Ezra Pound
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
— Ezra Pound
Either move or be moved.
— Ezra Pound
Sumer is icumen in,Lhude sing cucc.
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu,
Sing cuccu! — Ezra Pound
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
— Ezra Pound
Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
— Ezra Pound
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
— Ezra Pound
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
— Ezra Pound
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
— Ezra Pound
Technique is the test of sincerity.
— Ezra Pound
Literature is news which stays news.
— Ezra Pound
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
— Ezra Pound
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
— Ezra Pound
Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
— Ezra Pound
