List of Ezra Pound Quotes

We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
Total Quotes 216
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
Learning Artist Race
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!
Men Blood Soul
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Art Men Study
With usura with usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
Block Cutting Men
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.
New York Animal Rome
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.
Wall Emotional Garden
I could i trust starve like a gentleman. it's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Trust Gentleman Training
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.
Eye Desire Speak
Quiet this metal! let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. let them draw together the bones of the metal.
Fire White Together
Song in the manner of housman" o woe, woe, people are born and die, we also shall be dead pretty soon therefore let us act as if we were dead already. the bird sits on the hawthorn tree but he dies also, presently. some lads get hung, and some get shot. woeful is this human lot. woe! woe, etcetera.... london is a woeful place, shropshire is much pleasanter. then let us smile a little space upon fond nature's morbid grace. oh, woe, woe, woe, etcetera.
Song Space People
Allow me to say that i would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of latin.
Suicide Latin Long
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
Passion White Giving
  • Born: October 30, 1885
  • Died: November 1, 1972
  • Occupation: Poet
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