Technique is the test of sincerity. Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From Ezra Pound Presentation, not reference. Ezra Pound presentation A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. Ezra Pound splendourlightlittles As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. Ezra Pound passionwhitegiving There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. Ezra Pound topicsnationsboring You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year. Ezra Pound averagemenyears Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Ezra Pound sincerityteststechnique I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti. Ezra Pound monthspressureway As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Ezra Pound giving-upmenboys Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say. Ezra Pound objectivitystressexpression Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. Ezra Pound imbecilesfoolpaint Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. Ezra Pound suicidelatinlong The what is so much more important than how. Ezra Pound important Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera. Ezra Pound spacesongpeople Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal. Ezra Pound firewhitetogether The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole) Ezra Pound would-besleepamerica With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. Ezra Pound blockcuttingmen No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper. Ezra Pound 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Ezra Pound huntingwhiteworld The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me. Ezra Pound eyespeakdesire Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him. Ezra Pound heroicatheismreligion
