Ezra Pound Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Eye, Light

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.173, New Directions Publishing

• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Lying, Believe

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4

• The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

  Ezra Pound

  Eye, Desire, Speak

  Ezra Pound (1996). “Early Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

• Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

  Ezra Pound

  Pregnancy, Eye, Squares

  "Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts".

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