Ezra Pound Quotes

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produced the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have not order within him
His family will not act with due order;
And if the prince have not order within him
He can not put order in his dominions.

A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anything from them for their speaking in figures

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.

The author's conviction on this day of the 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.

Here is the core of evil, the burning hell without let-up,
The canker corrupting all things, Fafnir the worm,
Syphilis of the State, of all kingdoms
Wart of the common-weal,
Wenn-maker, corrupter of all things
Darkness the defiler
Twin evil of envy,
Snake of the seven heads, Hydra, entering all things
Passing the doors of temples defiling the grove of Paphos,
neschek, the crawling evil,
slime, the corrupter of all things,
Poisoner of the fount,
of all fountains, neschek,
The serpent, evil against Nature's increase,
Against beauty

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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

Many errors,
a little rightness.

Literature is news that STAYS news.

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

AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT THEY LIVE IN.

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.