Ezra Pound

“Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.”

“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”

“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”

“Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.”

“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.”

“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”

“Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning”

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

“And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth.”

“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

“Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.”

“L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.”

“The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.”

“If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.”