331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."

"Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols."

"The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."

"A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at."

"A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour."

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

"Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring."

"The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left."

"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."

"What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage."