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Ezra Pound Quotes

Ezra Pound quotes

American Poet October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972

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-- . :: A Girl The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast-- Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms. Tree you are, Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child -- so high -- you are, And all this is folly to the world Ezra Pound
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably. Ezra Pound
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. Ezra Pound
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Ezra Pound
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part..."
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at..."
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the..."
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati... when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i. e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot. Ezra Pound
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought..."
Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. Ezra Pound
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain. Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall. She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble. Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I ... Ezra Pound
My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages... Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be..."
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on..."
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

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