Ezra Pound Quotes
Ezra Pound Quotes
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
4667 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.
2055 Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.
2975 Literature is language charged with meaning
2917 If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
3112 Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.
4099 Rhythm must have meaning.
3643 It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
1527 And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
2749 L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
4527 Literature is news which stays news.
2968 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.
2026 Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
4241 Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
2600 There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
2944 With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
3785 Literature is news that stays news.
1443 No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
4537 The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
3202 A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.
4909 Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
4578 The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
1567 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.
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