Quotes by Pound, Ezra

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorou >>

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live >>

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every m >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. >>

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. >>

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. >>

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Pound, Ezra