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Famous Ezra Pound Quotes
“where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.”
“I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.”
“What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.”
“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave”
“'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!”
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
“Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.”
“The artist is the antenna of the race.”
“The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.”
“The natural object is always the adequate symbol.”
“Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”
“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.”
“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.”
“The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.”
“Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'”
“The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.”
“Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.”
“Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.”
“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”