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.

— Ezra Pound

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harmed.

— Ezra Pound

Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning

— Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

— Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

— Ezra Pound

If Ford Maddox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.

— Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

— Ezra Pound

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.

— Ezra Pound

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

— Ezra Pound