Ezra Pound Quotes

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage

To be men not destroyers

Not one man in a thousand can be aroused to an interest in economics until he definitely suffers from the effects of an evil system.

Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument

It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.

My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.

"You damn sadist!" said mr. cummings,
"you try to make people think."

Literature is news that STAYS news.

Both in Greece and in Provence the poetry attained its highest rhythmic and metrical brilliance at times when the arts of verse and music were most closely knit together, when each thing done by the poet had some definite musical urge or necessity bound up within it.

I never was. When I left the hospital I was still in America and all America is an insane asylum.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.