Author: Ezra Pound

Quotes

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

- Ezra Pound

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

- Ezra Pound

Either move or be moved.

Either move or be moved.

- Ezra Pound

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

- Ezra Pound

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

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

- Ezra Pound

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

- Ezra Pound

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

- Ezra Pound

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

- Ezra Pound

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

- Ezra Pound

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