Quote

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

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
American
Last
Living
Tragedy
Europe
Somebody
Literature
Lasts

More quotes by 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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
Ezra Pound
Image
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound
Image
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
Ezra Pound
Image
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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
Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
Image
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
Image
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
Image
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound
Image
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Ezra Pound
Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
Ezra Pound
Image
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
Ezra Pound
Image
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound
Image
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
Image
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
Ezra Pound
Image
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry These the keen-scented These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
Ezra Pound
Image
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Ezra Pound
Image
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound
Image
The artist is always beginning.
Ezra Pound