Ezra Pound Quotes

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

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.

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

With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
[...]
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
[...]
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly

I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

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

And of man seeking good,
doing evil.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

All other sins are open,
Usura alone not understood.