Ezra Pound Quotes

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, "It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... Poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D.. I shall survive as a curiosity.

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?

I dunno what my infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle "promise" from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

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.

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

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.