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Ezra Pound Quotes

«The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.»
«Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.»
«The jargon of these 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.»
«You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.»
«Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.»
«There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.»
«Wars are made to make debt.»
«But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.»
«Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.»
Author: Ezra Pound (Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator) | Keywords: precise
«The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.»
Author: Ezra Pound (Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator) | Keywords: A.D.

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