Quotes by Pound, Ezra

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ide >>

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to re >>

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. >>

Quotations about Music

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice. >>

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an >>

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leavi >>

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra