331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Rhythm must have meaning.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Literature is news that stays news.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wallShe walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding.Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.She would like some one to speak to her,And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

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.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.