Ezra Pound Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

  Ezra Pound

  Age, Literature, Language

  John Patrick Sullivan, Ezra Pound, Sextus Propertius (1964). “Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: a study in creative translation”

• The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

  Ezra Pound

  Grace, Age, Modern

  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley "E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de Son Sepulchre" l. 21 (1920)

• I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Children, Light

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

• My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

  Ezra Pound

  Struggle, Feelings, Intellectual

• We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

  Ezra Pound

  Pain, Book, Garden

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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