Ezra Pound Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”

“Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.”

“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”

“I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.”

“But the one thing you should. not do is to 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.”

“People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.”

“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”

“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.”

“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.”