Quotes by Pound, Ezra

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any w >>

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. >>

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rul >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be si >>

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life >>

All art is quite useless. >>

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra