I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound quote 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 quote 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 quote Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound quote Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound quote Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound quote Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound quote 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 quote Biography
American poet 1885-1972
