Ezra Pound quotes

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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

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.

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.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

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

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

Either move or be moved.

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

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

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