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Ezra Pound Quotes

Ezra Pound quotes about writing

American Poet October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972

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M'amour, m'amour what do I love and where are you? That I lost my center fighting the world The Dreams clash and are shattered- and that I tried to make a paradiso terrestre. I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. Ezra Pound
I have tried to write Paradise. Do not move. Let the wind speakthat is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what Ihave made. Let those I love try to forgivewhat I have made. Ezra Pound
If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana...and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation. Ezra Pound
The Lake Isle O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, With the little bright boxes piled up neatly upon the shelves And the loose fragrant cavendish and the shag, And the bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit. O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Lend me a little... Ezra Pound
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial..."
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of..."
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. Ezra Pound

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