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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement.

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Tags: Music, Great, Mad
Ezra Pound

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

Tags: Serious, Until, Golf
Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Tags: Men, Two, Agree
Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Tags: Subject, Course, Obsolete
Ezra Pound

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Tags: Positive, Credulous
Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Tags: Bad, Hard, Wonderful
Ezra Pound

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Tags: Beautiful, Down, Night
Ezra Pound

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Tags: Art, Real, Sculpture
Ezra Pound

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Tags: Time, Great, Live
Ezra Pound

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Tags: Political, Guy, Pick
Ezra Pound

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