People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. — Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. — Ezra Pound
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. — Ezra Pound
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of latin. — Ezra Pound
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. — Ezra Pound
But the one thing you should. Not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts only. — Ezra Pound
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. — Ezra Pound
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. — Ezra Pound
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. — Ezra Pound
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — Ezra Pound
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; — Ezra Pound
If I could believe the quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. — Ezra Pound
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. — Ezra Pound