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 2 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. - Ezra Pound 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. - Ezra Pound 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
