Ezra Pound Quotes

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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

Either move or be moved.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

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.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.