74 ordspråk av Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound föddes den October 30th 1885 och dog den 1 November 1972 - US writer
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 If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. |
| If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. |
| In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. |
| It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. |
| It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. |
| 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. |
| Literature is news that stays news. |
| Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. |
| Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood. |
| Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. |
| Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents |
| Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. |
| Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. |
| One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. |
| People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. |
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Proverb (1469535 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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