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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Literature is news that stays news.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.