79 ordspråk av Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound föddes den 30 oktober 1885 och dog den 1 november 1972 - US writer
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

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

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

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

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