{"id":160212,"date":"2024-04-28T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=160212"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T17:06:35","slug":"ezra-pound-best-famous-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/ezra-pound-best-famous-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Pound best famous quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ezra Pound best famous quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ezra Pound best famous quotes, a brief collection of the most significant aphorisms of the great writer to better understand his poetics and his literary art.<\/span><\/p>\n

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon\u2019s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron… I should have been able to do better.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance\u2026 poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

With one day\u2019s reading a man may have the key in his hands.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ezra Pound quote on poetry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature is news that stays news.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

If a nation\u2019s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn\u2019t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ezra Pound quote on genius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Wars are made to make debt.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ezra Pound quote on literature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liberty is not a right but a duty.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber\u2019s wax dummy is to sculpture.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry is about as much a \u2018criticism of life\u2019 as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

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