Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. Use this quote
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. Use this quote
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Use this quote
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Use this quote
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
