331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

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.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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