Quote

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

Ezra Pound

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
Autobiographer
Composer
Economist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Poet
Radio Personality
Translator
Writer
Hailey
Idaho
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Ezra Loomis Pound
Men
Favourite
Unnecessary
Agreement
Agree
Business
Two
Always

More quotes by Ezra Pound

Image
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Ezra Pound
Image
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
Ezra Pound
Image
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
Image
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
Ezra Pound
Image
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
Ezra Pound
Image
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound
Image
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound
Image
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound
Image
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
Ezra Pound
Image
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
Ezra Pound
Image
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
Ezra Pound
Image
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
Ezra Pound
Image
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
Image
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Ezra Pound
Image
small talk comes from small bones
Ezra Pound
Image
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness
Ezra Pound
Image
No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
Ezra Pound
Image
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound
Image
America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
Ezra Pound
Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
Ezra Pound