Ezra Pound Quotes

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Literature is news that STAYS news. - Ezra Pound quote.
Literature is news that STAYS news.
— Ezra Pound ABC of Reading

literature

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. - Ezra Pound quote.
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.
— Ezra Pound ABC of Reading

music

Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. - Ezra Pound quote.
Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
— Ezra Pound ABC of Reading

poetry

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. - Ezra Pound quote.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
— Ezra Pound Pisan Cantos

reading

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. - Ezra Pound quote.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
— Ezra Pound

work competition

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound quote.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
— Ezra Pound How to Read

literature

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound quote.
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
— Ezra Pound

interesting

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. - Ezra Pound quote.
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
— Ezra Pound A Serious Character

intellect

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists. - Ezra Pound quote.
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.
— Ezra Pound Little Review

artists

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. - Ezra Pound quote.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
— Ezra Pound

religion

Real knowledge goes into natural man in titbits. A scrap here, a scrap there; always pertinent, linked to safety, or nutrition or pleasure. - Ezra Pound quote.
Real knowledge goes into natural man in titbits. A scrap here, a scrap there; always pertinent, linked to safety, or nutrition or pleasure.
— Ezra Pound

discovery knowledge

A classic is a classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).  It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. - Ezra Pound quote.
A classic is a classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).  It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
— Ezra Pound ABC of Reading

classics