Ezra Pound

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#curse #earlier #illiteracy #in print #inability

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#good job #job #man #verse #wants

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#been #market #nothing #only #pay

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#free #him #slave #someone #waits

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #attempt #failures #just #numerous

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#american #europe #i #i am #last

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#inferior #say #sincerity #technique #test

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#endowed #energy #fused #idea #ideas

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#apparently #around #beyond #corner #eye