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
Ezra Pound quotes about
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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 concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
Presentation, not reference...
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.