“The glory of any nation is to produce art that can be exported without disgrace to its origin.”
Source: Lettere 1907 - 1958.
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Famous Ezra Pound Quotes
“The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
“Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
Source: ABC of Reading
“The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
Source: Ezra Pound perspectives: essays in honor of his eightieth birthday
“The artist is the antenna of the race.”
Source: Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, the Correspondence of Ezra Pound
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924
“The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.”
Source: The Spirit of Romance