quotes by Ezra Pound

"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."
— Ezra Pound

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"
— Ezra Pound

"Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds."
— Ezra Pound

"Literature is news that stays news."
— Ezra Pound (ABC of Reading)

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough."
— Ezra Pound

"'All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days. "
— Ezra Pound

"The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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— Ezra Pound

"Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product."
— Ezra Pound

"Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds."
— Ezra Pound

"The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories."
— Ezra Pound

"Rhythm must have meaning."
— Ezra Pound

"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
— Ezra Pound

"Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. "
— Ezra Pound

"“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.” "
— Ezra Pound

"This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man."
— Ezra Pound

"My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration. "
— Ezra Pound

"small talk comes from small bones"
— Ezra Pound

"Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria"
— Ezra Pound

"Things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To/ know what precedes and what follows will assist yr/ comprehension of process."
— Ezra Pound

"Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing."
— Ezra Pound