Quote

What counts is the cultural level

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
Culture
Counts
Cultural
Level
Levels

More quotes by Ezra Pound

Image
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
Image
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.
Ezra Pound
Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
Ezra Pound
Image
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Image
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
Ezra Pound
Image
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Ezra Pound
Image
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
Ezra Pound
Image
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
Image
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound
Image
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound
Image
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
Ezra Pound
Image
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
Ezra Pound
Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
Ezra Pound
Image
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth to disentangle promise from achievement to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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
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
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.
Ezra Pound
Image
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
Ezra Pound