Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Poundwas an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His best-known works include Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberleyand the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 October 1885
CityHailey, ID
CountryUnited States of America
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
The only history that matters is the history we know.
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.