Ezra Pound Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Ordinary, Genius

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

• Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Two

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

• The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

  Ezra Pound

  Genius, Inferiority, Madness

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

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Expression, Genius

  1918 Letter to J B Yeats, 4 Feb.

• Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

  Ezra Pound

  Taken, Genius, Way

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