Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. Ezra Pound reading men book 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 artist literature doe Learn of the green world what can be thy place Ezra Pound green-world invention art The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. Ezra Pound pigment poetry art Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Ezra Pound adjectives use doe A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. Ezra Pound hope men civilization If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. Ezra Pound essentials errors literature Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound squares stars satisfaction All great art is born of the metropolis. Ezra Pound born cities art It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep. Ezra Pound skins half would-be The artist is always beginning. Ezra Pound artist The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. Ezra Pound inspirational life art Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Ezra Pound agents writing way It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. Ezra Pound suspense imagination brain The artist is the antenna of the race. Ezra Pound artist race art The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic. Ezra Pound perception trying america Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound atrophy dance literature There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Ezra Pound change men book I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you. Ezra Pound slender fingers dawn 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 bears mean art
