A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

— Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.

— Ezra Pound

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

— Ezra Pound

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the either. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

— Ezra Pound

And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

— Ezra Pound

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

— Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

— Ezra Pound

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

— Ezra Pound

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

— Ezra Pound

Either move or be moved.

— Ezra Pound