Ezra Pound Quotes

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

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

Ezra Pound

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Ezra Pound

Either move or be moved.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

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

Ezra Pound

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

Ezra Pound

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound