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Ezra Pound Quotes
Tis the white stag, Fame, were a-hunting, bid the worlds hounds come to horn! - Ezra Pound Quotes
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. - Ezra Pound Quotes
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. - Ezra Pound Quotes
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. - Ezra Pound Quotes
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. - Ezra Pound Quotes
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. - Ezra Pound Quotes
All great art is born of the metropolis. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. - Ezra Pound Quotes
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. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. - Ezra Pound Quotes
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Either move or be moved. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. - Ezra Pound Quotes
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. - Ezra Pound Quotes
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 Quotes
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. - Ezra Pound Quotes
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 Quotes
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. - Ezra Pound Quotes
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. - Ezra Pound Quotes
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. - Ezra Pound Quotes
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasnt irascible. - Ezra Pound Quotes
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. - Ezra Pound Quotes
If a nations literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. - Ezra Pound Quotes
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. - Ezra Pound Quotes
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. - Ezra Pound Quotes
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. - Ezra Pound Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Answer Balance Civilization Come Fame Gang General
Give Horn Hounds Instinct Itself Loathing Question
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Will Worlds
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