Ezra Pound Quotes

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

~ Ezra Pound

Either move or be moved.

~ Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

~ Ezra Pound

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

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

~ Ezra Pound

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

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

~ Ezra Pound