Ezra Pound

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. ”

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ”

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. ”

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. ”

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ”

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. ”

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ”

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

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. ”

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. ”