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. -Ezra Pound Art
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. -Ezra Pound Power
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. -Ezra Pound Education
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. -Ezra Pound Poetry
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. -Ezra Pound Poetry
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. -Ezra Pound Art
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. -Ezra Pound Art
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. -Ezra Pound Men
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. -Ezra Pound War
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. -Ezra Pound Money
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. -Ezra Pound Truth
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. -Ezra Pound Music
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. -Ezra Pound Chance
