Source: ABC of Reading
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Famous Ezra Pound Quotes
Source: ABC of Reading
“Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
Source: Guide to Kulchur
“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.”
“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
Source: Guide to Kulchur
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
Source: Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a
“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”
“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
“The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: Ezra Pound Speaking
“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.”
Source: Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: a study in creative translation
“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”