Ezra Pound Quotes

Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument

And even I can remember
A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,
I mean, for things they didn't know,
But that time seems to be passing.

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.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."