Ezra Pound Quotes - Page 8

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• install me in any profession
  Save this damn'd profession of writing,
  where one needs one's brains all the time.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Brain, Needs

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.121, New Directions Publishing

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• My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

  Ezra Pound

  Struggle, Feelings, Intellectual

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• I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

  Ezra Pound

  Moving, Writing, Wind

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, James Longenbach (1991). “Ezra Pound's poetry and prose: contributions to periodicals”

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• A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

  Ezra Pound

  New York, Animal, Rome

  "Patria Mia".

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

  Ezra Pound

  Jobs, Truth, Men

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.362, New Directions Publishing

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• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

  Ezra Pound

  Dragons, World, Ants

  Cantos no. 81, l. 144 (1948)

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• The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

  Ezra Pound

  Eye, Desire, Speak

  Ezra Pound (1996). “Early Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

  Ezra Pound

  Block, Cutting, Men

  Cantos no. 45, l. 1 (1937)

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• Presentation, not reference.

  Ezra Pound

  Presentation

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• 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.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Wind, Feet

  Ezra Pound (1957). “Selected Poems”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

  Ezra Pound

  Children, Men, Bed

  Cantos no. 45, l. 42 (1937)

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• That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

  Ezra Pound

  Thinking, Apathy, Constitution

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• Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

  Ezra Pound

  Imbeciles, Fool, Paint

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

  Ezra Pound

  Pregnancy, Eye, Squares

  "Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts".

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Nature, Rags, Paper

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

  Ezra Pound

  Sleep, America, Would Be

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.182, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, Iron, Criticism

  The Spirit of Romance ch. 9 (1910)

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• What counts is the cultural level

  Ezra Pound

  Culture, Levels

  Ezra Pound (1996). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.538, New Directions Publishing

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• The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Light

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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

  Ezra Pound

  Europe, Tragedy, Literature

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• where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

  Ezra Pound

  Made

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.252, New Directions Publishing

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• Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Blood, Soul

  'The Return' (1912)

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• The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

  Ezra Pound

  Wall, Emotional, Garden

  'The Garden' (1916)

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• Sumer is icumen in,
  Lhude sing cucc.
  Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
  And springth the wude nu,
  Sing cuccu!

  Ezra Pound

  Summer, July, Meds

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