Ezra Pound Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Wars are made to make debt.”

“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”

“Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

“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.”

“A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.”

“Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.”

“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”

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

“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”

“If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.”