Quote

Technique is the test of sincerity.

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
Sincerity
Test
Technique
Tests

More quotes by Ezra Pound

Image
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
Ezra Pound
Image
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra Pound
Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound
Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
Ezra Pound
Image
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Ezra Pound
Image
The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet black bough.
Ezra Pound
Image
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
Ezra Pound
Image
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Ezra Pound
Image
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
Ezra Pound
Image
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
Ezra Pound
Image
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
Ezra Pound
Image
Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound
Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
Ezra Pound
Image
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom
Ezra Pound