Ezra Pound Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.”

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

“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”

“The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.”

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

“Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.”

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

“The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.”

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