Ezra Pound Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Criticism, Attention

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Criticism, Literature

  Ezra Pound (1991). “Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a”

• Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, Iron, Criticism

  The Spirit of Romance ch. 9 (1910)

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