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 From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. Ezra Pound together tree religion 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 stars new-york beautiful The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound light reading book Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit Ezra Pound pox causes body install me in any profession Ezra Pound brain writing needs The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Ezra Pound church literature people Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical. Ezra Pound masters mind past What counts is the cultural level Ezra Pound levels culture The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance. Ezra Pound learning courage men Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound checks literature history The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it. Ezra Pound receiving perception book Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. Ezra Pound tragedy literature europe Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. Ezra Pound iron criticism fire But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. Ezra Pound artist should art I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. Ezra Pound criticism literature writing Technique is the test of sincerity. Ezra Pound sincerity tests technique Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound sculpture real art In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom. Ezra Pound rose order ideas Properly, we should read for power. Ezra Pound power should The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement. Ezra Pound new-year music taken
