331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

"The hells move in cycles,No man can see his own end.The Gods have not returned. "They have never left us."They have not returned."

"Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into people’s faces, / Will you find your lost dead among them?"

"And if you ask how I regret that parting?It is like the flowers falling at spring’s end,confused, whirled in a tangle.What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking—There is no end of things in the heart."

"As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valleyShe lay beside me in the dawn."

"I desired my dust to be mingled with yoursForever and forever and forever."

"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite."

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

"Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal."

"I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art."